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A Postcolonial Relationship
(December 2021)
Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other
Choi Hee An - Author
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Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.
A Postcolonial Relationship critically examines the problems of current US racial relations from an Asian immigrant perspective and provides a new understanding of the complications that Asian immigrant groups experience...(Read More) |
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The Cultural Power of Personal Objects
(December 2021)
Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives
Jared Kemling - Editor
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Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More) |
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
(November 2021)
Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherríe Moraga - Editor
Gloria Anzaldúa - Editor
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Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga...(Read More) |
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The World of Agha Shahid Ali
(February 2021)
Tapan Kumar Ghosh - Editor
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee - Editor
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Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001). Though sometimes identified as an “Indian writer in English,” Shahid came to designate himself as a Kashmiri-American ...(Read More) |
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A Postcolonial Leadership
(January 2020)
Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges
Choi Hee An - Author
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Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.
In A Postcolonial Leadership, Choi Hee An explores the interwoven relationship between Asian immigrant leadership in general and Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States. Using several current leadership theories, she analyzes the current landscape of US l...(Read More) |
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The State of Race
(July 2019)
Asian/American Fiction after World War II
Sze Wei Ang - Author
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An innovative comparative study of the role racial stereotypes play in expressing state power under globalization.
Contemporary ideas about race are often assumed to be products of specific locales and histories, yet we find versions of the same ideas about race across countries and cultures. How can we account for this paradox? In The State of Race, Sze Wei Ang argues that globalization has led to new ways of using raci...(Read More) |
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Congress and Diaspora Politics
(September 2018)
The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying
James A. Thurber - Editor
Colton C. Campbell - Editor
David A. Dulio - Editor
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Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
Congress and Diaspora Politics examines the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking. Over time, the number and variety of ethnic groups have grown, and foreign governments have increasingly turned to professional lobbyists rather than relying on their diplomatic co...(Read More) |
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We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet
(February 2018)
Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family
E. J. R. David - Author
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A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.
In a series of letters to his mixed-race Koyukon Athabascan family, E. J. R. David shares his struggles, insecurities, and anxieties as a Filipino American immigrant man, husband, and father living in the lands dom...(Read More) |
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Race, Nation, and Refuge
(October 2017)
The Rhetoric of Race in Asian American Citizenship Cases
Doug Coulson - Author
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Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.
From 1870 to 1940, racial eligibility for naturalization in the United States was limited to “free white persons” and “aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent,” and many interpreted these restrictions to reflect a policy of Asian exclusion based on the conclusion that...(Read More) |
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Cambodian Buddhism in the United States
(September 2017)
Carol A. Mortland - Author
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The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.
Cambodian Buddhism in the United States is the first comprehensive anthropological study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees in the United States. Based on research conducted at Khmer temples and sites throughout the country over a period of three and a ha...(Read More) |
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