Asian American Studies Catalog 2019

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IMMIGR ATION AND DIA SPOR A FILIPINO STUDIES

Edited by Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu

Khatharya Um

272 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-5823-1 • $28.00 In the Nation of Nations series

CITIZENS OF ASIAN AMERICA

JAPANESE AMERICAN ETHNICITY

Cindy I-Fen Cheng

Takeyuki Tsuda

Democracy and Race during the Cold War

“Offers a significant contribution to the scholarship on Cold War racial politics by highlighting the significance of political discourse about and by Asians.” — Judy TzuChun Wu, Ohio State University

285 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-8073-7 • $24.00 In the Nation of Nations series

In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations

“Deftly explores notions of transnational ethnicity among contemporary Japanese Americans.” — K. Scott Wong, author of Americans First

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“Makes visible the lived experiences of Cambodians as they try to make sense of their new identities in multiple contexts. A remarkable book.” —Chia Youyee Vang, author of Hmong America

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464 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-8435-3 • $30.00

War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

An unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational, palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades.” —Pacific Historical Review

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FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS

Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

352 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-1079-6 • $30.00

GENDER AND SE XUALIT Y

“Offers a way to see the deeply penetrating influence of race while offering expansive models for living in (LGBTQI) America.” —American Journal of Sociology

336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0978-3 • $26.00 In the Sexual Cultures series

Stanley I. Thangaraj

“At the heart of Asian American masculinity may be this question: How can the so-called model minority ever effectively man up? Thangaraj pushes this conversation forward.” —Sociological Forum

288 Pages • Paper 978-0-8147-6093-2 • $27.00

PERFORMANCE S TUDIES THE RACIAL MUNDANE Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday

THE EXQUISITE CORPSE OF ASIAN AMERICA

Ju Yon Kim

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

304 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-4432-6 • $28.00

“Explores contemporary Asian American performance, comedy, written word, and a body exhibit that concern racialized, gendered, militarized body parts.” — Charis Thompson, author of Good Science

“A beautifully written and original discussion of Asian American performance and the politics of the everyday. “ — Josephine Lee, author of Performing Asian America

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C. Winter Han

Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity

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Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

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GEISHA OF A DIFFERENT KIND

Rachel C. Lee

336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0978-3 • $26.00 In the Sexual Cultures series

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FASHION AND BEAUTY IN THE TIME OF ASIA

Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia

272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2505-9 • $30.00 In the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis June 2019

RETURNS OF WAR

South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory

Long T. Bui

“Highlight[s] the passions and ambivalences of Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans as they engage the fraught history and its aftermath.” –Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer

AFTER THE PARTY

A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

Joshua Chambers-Letson

A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking

336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-3277-4 • $30.00 In the Sexual Cultures series

UNNAMABLE

The Ends of Asian American Art

Susette Min

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals

272 Pages • Paper 978-0814-76430-5 • $30.00

KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN IMMIGRANT AMERICA

BEING MUSLIM

Sumie Okazaki and Nancy Abelmann

An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color

An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States

272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2505-9 • $30.00

ANTIRACISM An Introduction

Alex Zamalin

“Alex Zamalin provides a comprehensive account of the philosophical underpinnings and practices of anti-racism in the United States.” —David Theo Goldberg, author of Are We All Postracial Yet?

224 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2263-8 • $19.95

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CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN

GLOBAL ASIAN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURES

Third Edition A Multidisciplinary Reader

Edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime and Tasha Oren

Edited by Min Zhou and Anthony C. Ocampo

A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume, and are reflected by mainstream media

“A collection of readings that carefully brings together central themes in Asian American Studies. A great resource for those looking for a lively introduction to the field.” —Nazli Kibria, Boston University

400 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-1573-9 • $30.00

A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam

Sylvia Chan-Malik

288 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2342-0 • $29.00

AFFINITY ONLINE

IN THE KE Y WORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

1. ADOPTION Catherine Ceniza Choy 2. ART Margo Machida 11. CULTURE Robert G. Lee “An extraordinary volume, one positioned 12. DEPORTATION Bill Ong Hing to make indispensable contributions to 17. EMPIRE Moon-Ho Jung Asian American Studies specifically and 23. FAMILY Evelyn Nakano Glenn to interdisciplinary scholarship more 24. FILM Jigna Desai generally.” — George Lipsitz, author of 25. FOOD Anita Mannur How Racism Takes Place 40. MILITARISM Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 336 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-0328-6 • $27.00 51. RACE Junaid Rana Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring 53. RELIGION David Kim together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and 57. TERRORISM Rajini Srikanth social sciences. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly 60. WAR K. Scott Wong

Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Võ and K. Scott Wong

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THE FILIPINO PRIMITIVE Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people

256 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-5275-8 • $26.00 In the Connected Youth and Digital Futures series

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“Predictably excellent and essential—a book that leads us through the impact of the Global War on Terror on Afghan American, Arab American and South Asian American youth.” — Vijay Prashad author of Uncle Swami

304 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-8469-8 • $28.00

Andrea Louie

Breathes new life into the study of transnational Chinese adoption using a personal touch, a sympathetic critique, and a very readable ethnographic narrative.” — Sara K. Dorow, author of Transnational Adoption

304 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-9463-5 • $28.00

Lori Kido Lopez

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Foreword by Angela Harris

Third Edition An Introduction

Fighting for Cultural Citizenship How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more

272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-6683-0 • $27.00 In the Critical Cultural Communication series Instructor’s Guide Available

224 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0276-0 • $19.00 In the Critical America series

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244 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-9217-4 • $25.00 In the Nation of Nations series

BROKERING SERVITUDE

Gerald Horne

Andrew Urban

240 Pages • Cloth 978-1-4798-4859-1 • $30.00

352 Pages • Cloth 978-0-8147-8584-3 • $39.00 In the Culture, Labor, History series

The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II

CRITICAL RACE THEORY

Catherine Ceniza Choy

“Choy situates international adoption within the ambit of history and Asian American studies and gives a critical space for discussing international adoption.” — Social Transformations

FACING THE RISING SUN

Edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan and Anita Mannur

ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA ACTIVISM

GLOBAL FAMILIES

A History of Asian International Adoption in America

HIS TORY

African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity

“Connects Asian food to larger social, economic, political, and historical contexts in the US.” — Y. Kiuchi, Choice

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Explores the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields

Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture

453 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-6925-1 • $27.00

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Edited by Stanley I. Thangaraj, Constancio Arnaldo and Christina B. Chin Foreword by J. Jack Halberstam Afterword by Lisa Lowe

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EATING ASIAN AMERICA

A Food Studies Reader

Sarita Echavez See How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation 272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2505-9 • $30.00

ASIAN AMERICAN SPORTING CULTURES

HOW CHINESE ARE YOU?

S A M PLE S FR O M T H E TA B LE O F CO N T EN T S:

How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning

Mizuko Ito, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen and Amanda Wortman

THE 9/11 GENERATION

Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror

320 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-8051-5 • $28.00

688 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2622-3 • $35.00

688 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2622-3 • $35.00

How Teens and Parents Navigate Race

YOUTH AND FAMILY

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HIGHLIGHTS

Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America

LITER ARY S TUDIES STRANGE FRUIT OF THE BLACK PACIFIC Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives

Vince Schleitwiler

Traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across media

288 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-5708-1 • $28.00 In the Nation of Nations series

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RACIAL ASYMMETRIES

Asian American Fictional Worlds

Stephen Hong Sohn

“Provides rich, nuanced readings of the performance, permutations, and persistence of race in 21stcentury Asian American literature.” — Victor Bascara University of California, Los Angeles

297 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0027-8 • $27.00

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