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Asian American Studies
Geography November 30, 2021

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …

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Interviews with scholars of Asian America about about their new books.

Political Science November 11, 2021

Diversity's Child

People of Color and the Politics of Identity

Efrén O. Pérez

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Efrén Pérez’s new book, Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity (U Chicago Press, 2021), explores the term and category “people of color” and how …
Islamic Studies November 5, 2021

Minarets on the Horizon

Muslim Pioneers in Canada

Murray Hogben

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Minarets on the Horizon: Muslim Pioneers in Canada (Mawenzi House 2021) by Murray Hogben is an incredible archive of some of the early Muslim settlers in Canada. The book is …
Architecture October 22, 2021

Sandfuture

Justin Beal

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American …
Buddhist Studies October 20, 2021

Be the Refuge

Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists

Chenxing Han

Hosted by Victoria Montrose
Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse …
American West September 15, 2021

Facilitating Injustice

The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946

Yoosun Park

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government forcibly removed approximately 120,000 people "of Japanese ancestry" from their homes and into self-proclaimed concentration camps across the American West and South …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast August 25, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 4)

Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"

Kandice Chuh

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). This episode …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast August 24, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 3)

A Discussion with Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the third episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). This episode …
Gender Studies August 18, 2021

Tastes Like War

A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

Hosted by Ann Choi
The US military camptowns were established shortly after the Second World War in 1945, appropriating the Japanese comfort stations. The Korean government actively supported the creation of camptowns for its …
Asian Review of Books August 12, 2021

The Good Asian, Volume 1

Pornsak Pichetshote

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Edison Hark, the star of The Good Asian (Image Comics: 2021), the new comic series written by Pornsak Pichetshote and illustrated by Alexandre Tefenkgi, never signed up to investigate a …
Political Science August 12, 2021

The Great Demographic Illusion

Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

Richard Alba

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has written an intriguing new book on our understanding of American demographic data, and how …
Military History August 3, 2021

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

Brian Masaru Hayashi

Hosted by Jess Moloughney
Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with …
Asian American Studies June 24, 2021

Mahjong

A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

Annelise Heinz

Hosted by Ian Shin
Mahjong: many have played the game, but few are familiar with its rich and complex history. In Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture (Oxford University Press …
Sociology June 21, 2021

Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

Ken Chih-Yan Sun

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (Cornell UP, 2021) interrogates how long-term immigrants …
Political Science June 17, 2021

Unstable Masks

Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

Sean Guynes and Martin Lund

Hosted by Lilly Goren
In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (Ohio State UP, 2020), Sean Guynes and Martin Lund have assembled more than fifteen chapters that interrogate our thinking about superheroes, especially those …
Asian Review of Books June 17, 2021

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Isabel Rosario Cooper, if mentioned at all by mainstream history books, is often a salacious footnote: the young Filipino mistress of General Douglas MacArthur, hidden away at the Charleston Hotel …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast June 1, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 2)

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the second episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. This episode features …
Folklore May 26, 2021

Balut

Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora

Margaret Magat

Hosted by Nancy Yan
Balut is a fertilized chicken or duck egg that is boiled at the seventeenth day and sold as a common street snack in the Philippines. While it is widely eaten …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast May 18, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 1)

Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode will be the first of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. Since 1987 …
Sports May 3, 2021

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America

Bradford Pearson

Hosted by Paul Knepper
In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the …