Asian & Asian American Studies 2021

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HIGHLIGHTS FORTHCOMING

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

Analysis

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

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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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