ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
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SHADOW TRACES
Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
ELENA TAJIMA CREEF Reconsidering the use of images in histories of Asian American women “A tour de force. Creef provides nothing less than a visual pedagogy for Asian American feminism. She mines the dark gaze of imperial power and blank spots of gender history as well as its secrets. When she engages the family album (and story of a hapless Japanese pet dog, Butchi) as a site of memory and memorialization, you cannot put the book down.” —LESLIE BOW, author of “Partly Colored”: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South MAY 2022
Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection’s range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography.
192 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 37 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04440-3 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08647-2 $26.00x £19.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05339-9 A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo
Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research.
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ELENA TAJIMA CREEF is a professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body.
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LURED BY THE AMERICAN DREAM
Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952–1970
P. JAMES PALIGUTAN How Filipino sailors sought equal opportunity “Accessible and sophisticated. Paligutan’s exploration of the recruitment and experiences of Filipino navy men is an excellent illustration of how economic underdevelopment of the Philippines in the interests of US economic and political gain created the first of many pools of cheap Filipino migrant workers. Paligutan has done a fantastic job of weaving in an intersectional analysis of gender, particularly masculinity, throughout the book.” —VALERIE FRANCISCO-MENCHAVEZ, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
SEPTEMBER 2022 216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 11 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards—domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan’s story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military’s elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation.
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Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.
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P. JAMES PALIGUTAN is a lecturer in Asian American studies at California State University, Fullerton.
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES / MUSIC
MANIFEST TECHNIQUE
Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture
MARK R. VILLEGAS An obscured vanguard in hip hop “Manifest Technique brilliantly demonstrates how to place Filipino American choreography, lyrics, and crew allegiances at the heart of our study of hip hop as a cultural vernacular. Villegas invites us to listen deep and to consider how these expressive forms carry forward memories, desires, and critiques.” —THEODORE S. GONZALVES, author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture’s early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre’s significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop’s connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners’ language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization.
JULY 2021 240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 1 TABLE
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An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05268-2 A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo
MARK R. VILLEGAS is an assistant professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES / WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
QUEERING THE GLOBAL FILIPINA BODY
Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
GINA K. VELASCO Globalization, work, and the images of Filipinas in the media “A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation.” —SARITA SEE, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance
NOVEMBER 192 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 6 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.
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Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.
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GINA K. VELASCO is an assistant professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gettysburg College.
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MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY
CHEN YI LETA E. MILLER and J. MICHELE EDWARDS A user-friendly guide to the composer’s rich and engaging music “Drawing on extensive interviews, they depict this globe trotting composer’s cultural milieu in vivid detail and persuasively demonstrates the multifaceted and transnational dimension of the composer’s musical world. Their musical readings are vivid and insightful, full of rich information about Chen’s aesthetics, idioms, and distinctive style. This is a must read to anyone who is interested in concert music of twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” —NANCY RAO, author of Chinatown Opera Theater in America Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the United States from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them.
DECEMBER 256 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 14 CHARTS, 105 MUSIC EXAMPLES, 2 TABLES
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Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer’s background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen’s solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen’s compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen’s music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.
PAPER, 978-0-252-08544-4 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05242-2 A volume in the series Women Composers Publication of this book was supported by grants from the Donna Cardamone Jackson Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and from the Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund.
LETA E. MILLER is a professor of music emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of biographies of Aaron Jay Kernis and Lou Harrison. J. MICHELE EDWARDS, musicologist and conductor, is a professor emerita of music at Macalester College and focuses her research on women musicians, especially from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES / EDUCATION
DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE
Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School
Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.” —GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
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University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.
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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.
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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.
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RACED TO DEATH IN 1920S HAWAI‘I
Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case
JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA An infamous murder case and racism in 1920s Hawai‘i “Okamura’s work opens the door for further reflection on how this history fits into larger patterns of U.S. race relations.” —NICHI BEI WEEKLY
“The color line in the United States has historically been and continues to be White vs. Black, yet the salient strength of Raced to Death is to make evident that the color line is, more accurately, White vs. Non-White.” —KAREN L. ISHIZUKA, author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
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On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga’s sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys.
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Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials “raced” Fukunaga to death—first viewing the accused only as Japanese, despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community’s demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai’ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands’ sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai‘i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai‘i.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05144-9. A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo All rights: University of Illinois
JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the author of several books, most recently From Race to Ethnicity: Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i.
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DISRUPTING KINSHIP
Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
KIMBERLY D. MCKEE Korean adoption and the legacies of gratitude “McKee challenges the mainstream adoption narrative, which privileges notions of love and family by focusing on the rhetoric of child-saving rescue. . . . A welcome contribution to the study of Korean transnational adoption, especially through its engagement with the concepts of family, kinship, belonging, citizenship, and agency.” —H-NET REVIEWS
“Disrupting Kinship is a timely book that contextualizes the creation and history of the transnational adoption industrial complex and identifies many of adoption’s effects and repercussions, systematically as well as individually. McKee skillfully connects the historical construction of adoption to contemporary issues through diverse interdisciplinary approaches.” —ADOPTION AND CULTURE 250 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 5 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship.
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Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial, multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families—a system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for South Korea’s unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation, citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.
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KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the co-editor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School.
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THE WORLD IN A CITY
Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
DAVID M. STRUTHERS How working people from around the world imagined a new Los Angeles “David Struthers’s fresh and fascinating look at Los Angeles radicalism shows us long-forgotten facets of city history. Dedicated anarchist activists, an alphabet soup of radical organizations, an interracial rank-and-file—all had a profound impact on Los Angeles’s transformation into a modern city. Struthers’s mix of research and fluid storytelling takes us back to an era of soaring hopes and racial togetherness that, for a time, sustained a grand vision of a Los Angeles that might have been.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 310 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS, 1 CHART, 3 TABLES
A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state.
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David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles’s interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation.
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