Asian American Studies

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

PERFORMANCE STUDIES The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America

The Racial Mundane Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

JU YON KIM

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A Race So Different Performance and Law in Asian America JOSHUA TAKANO CHAMBERS-LETSON

“Legal history, theater, and everyday performance come together in this illuminating, profound, and intrepid study.”

–Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota

Spellbinding Performance in the Asias ENG-BENG LIM

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G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S Eating Asian America

Global Families

A Food Studies Reader

A History of Asian International Adoption in America

Edited by ROBERT JI-SONG KU, MARTIN F. MANALANSAN and ANITA MANNUR

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CATHERINE CENIZA CHOY

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– Charis Thompson, University of California, Berkeley

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“Rachel Lee’s stunning new book explores contemporary Asian American performance, comedy, written word, and a body exhibit that concern racialized, gendered, militarized body parts.”

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

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RACHEL C. LEE

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L I T E RA R Y S T U D I E S

Edited by CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS, LINDA TRINH VÕ and K. SCOTT WONG

Spanning multiple histories, numerous migrations, and diverse populations, this book reconsiders and recalibrates the ever-shifting borders of Asian American studies as a distinctly interdisciplinary field.

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“An essential text for understanding the historical forces at work in the ways in which we define American literature today.”

GENDER AND SEXUALITY Desi Hoop Dreams

Geisha of a Different Kind

Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity

Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

STANLEY I. THANGARAJ

C. WINTER HAN

“There is much to be learned from this thoughtful, nuanced, and frank analysis.”

“Bravely engages with the struggles and triumphs of Asian American gay men as they inhabit American society and its gay mainstream.”

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Living Out Islam Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims

In the Intersections series

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Racial Asymmetries Asian American Fictional Worlds

Sitting in Darkness

Transpacific Antiracism

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Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization

Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa

WINNER OF THE 2013-2014 ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE, ADULT NON-FICTION OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LIBRARIAN ASSOCIATION

HSUAN L. HSU

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In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Contemporary ArabAmerican Literature Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging CAROL FADDA-CONREY

STEPHEN HONG SOHN

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An Ame rican Literatures Initiative book

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Caring Across Generations The Linked Lives of Korean American Families GRACE J. YOO and BARBARA W. KIM

“[An] innovative qualitative study….A powerful resource.”

–Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, University of California at Los Angeles 256 PAGES • 1 TABLE PAPER • 978-0-8147-6999-7 • $24.00 CLOTH • 978-0-8147-6897-6 • $75.00

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How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture ANDREA LOUIE

Orienting Hollywood A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay NITIN GOVIL

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An Ame rican Literatures Initiative book

In the Critical Cultural Communication series

From Bombay to Bollywood

Democracy and Race during the Cold War

–Scott Kurashige, author of The Shifting Grounds of Race

CINDY I-FEN CHENG

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Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas

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AHMED AFZAL

“Offers both in-depth ethnography and insightful theoretical discussions.”

The Sun Never Sets South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

–Karen Leonard, University of California, Irvine

Edited by VIVEK BALD, MIABI CHATTERJI, SUJANI REDDY and MANU VIMALASSERY

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“Opens up radically new ways to think about diaspora.”

Islam Is a Foreign Country

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American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

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In the Nation of Nations series

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ALSO OF INTEREST Women in Japanese Religions BARBARA R. AMBROS

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–Junaid Rana, author of Terrifying Muslims

The Making of a Global Media Industry

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Lone Star Muslims

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From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century CYRUS R. K. PATELL

In the Keywords series

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RACE AND ETHNICITY

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Technomobility in China Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones CARA WALLIS

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