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Pain Generation
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie
The Smell of Risk
Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
L. AYU SARASWATI
HSUAN L. HSU
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
224 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0833-5 • $28.00
272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1009-3 • $30.00
Intimacies of Conflict
Cultural Memory and the Korean War DANIEL Y. KIM
Reframes the archives of The Forgotten War 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0536-5 • $29.00
Open World Empire
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
Hyper Education
Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough PAWAN DHINGRA An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children 352 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-3114-2 • $29.95
The Race Card
From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON
TARA FICKLE
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to reinvigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play
How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes
344 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9590-8 • $35.00
In Postmillennial Pop
272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0595-2 • $30.00
In Postmillennial Pop
FORTHCOMING
China’s Grand Strategy
Divorce in China
Edited by DAVID B. H. DENOON Leading scholars examine China’s global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance
Why are women still at a disadvantage in Chinese divorce courts?
A Roadmap to Global Power?
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4-798-0409-2 • $38.00
Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes XIN HE
304 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0553-2 • $65.00
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IMMIGRATION & DIASPORA Our Voices, Our Histories
Whiter
Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
Asian American and Pacific Islander Woman
An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories
Edited by NIKKI KHANNA Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled “too dark” to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards
520 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7701-0 • $35.00
280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0029-2 • $25.00
Edited by SHIRLEY HUNE and GAIL
M. NOMURA
Framed by War
A War Born Family
Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War
SUSIE WOO
KORI A. GRAVES
An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and womens
The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8053-9 • $32.00
328 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-7232-9 • $45.00
In Nation of Nations
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Title CHOICE Magazine
Stuck
Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder MARGARET M. CHIN A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace 224 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-1681-1 • $28.00
Being Muslim
A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam SYLVIA CHAN-MALIK An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century US Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2342-0 • $29.00
Korean American Families in Immigrant America
How Teens and Parents Navigate Race SUMIE OKAZAKI and NANCY ABELMANN
S TAY C O N N E C T E D
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An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3668-0 • $32.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY Legalizing Sex
Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India
Returns of War
South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory
CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI
LONG T. BUI
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees
208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2636-0 • $30.00
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7195-7 • $30.00 In Nation of Nations 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, Award Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia Edited by S. HEIJIN LEE, CHRISTINA H. MOON, and THUY LINH
NGUYEN TU Original essays consider the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called “Asian Century” 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9284-6 • $30.00 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural
Desi Hoop Dreams
Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity STANLEY I. THANGARAJ
“A must-read book for students and scholars of Asian American studies.” —Journal of Asian American Studies “[O]ffers an important ethnographic exploration of the making of masculinity among South Asian American men from brown bodies to brown-out spaces...” —Hoching Jiang, Gender & Society 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-6093-2 • $28.00
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ART & AESTHETICS 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, Award Association for Theatre in Higher Education
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 Sexual Cultures
2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies RACHEL C. LEE Addresses the question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0978-3 • $28.00
The Filipino Primitive
Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum SARITA ECHAVEZ SEE How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2505-9 • $30.00
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 978-0-8147-6430-5 • $30.00
In Sexual Cultures
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Crisis and Predation
India, COVID-19, and Global Finance RESEARCH UNIT FOR POLITICAL
Value and Crisis second edition
Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan
ECONOMY
MAKOTO ITOH
How India’s COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster
Analyzes Japanese contributions to Marxist theory 296 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7898-5 • $29.00
216 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7924-1 • $15.00
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Published by Monthly Review Press
GREAT FOR COURSES Keywords for Asian American Studies Edited by CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS,
K. SCOTT WONG, and LINDA TRINH VÕ A new vocabulary for Asian American studies engaging social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0328-6 • $28.00 In Keywords
Contemporary Asian America third edition A Multidisciplinary Reader Edited by MIN ZHOU and ANTHONY C. OCAMPO
Offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America—updated to include the impact of 9/11 on identity; the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in immigrants; and more 688 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2622-3 • $35.00
Instructor’s Guide available
Instructor’s Guide with Additional Resources available
Women in Buddhist Traditions
Women in Japanese Religions
KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO
BARBARA R. AMBROS
A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world
Presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan’s pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions
232 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0342-2 • $22.00 In Women in Religions
240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8406-3 • $20.00
Includes Class Discussion Questions
In Women in Religions Includes Class Discussion Questions
Global Asian American Pop Cultures Edited by SHILPA DAVE, LEILANI
NISHIME, and TASHA OREN A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media 400 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1573-9 • $30.00
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