New Books in Asian American Studies

Franny Choi
Soft Science

Alice James Books, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society February 25, 2020 Andrea Blythe

Franny Choi’s book-length collection of poetry, Soft Science (Alice James Books 2019), explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence. As she notes in this interview, “this book is a study of softness,” exploring feeling, vulnerability, and desire. How can you be tender and still... Read More

Iyko Day, “Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism” (Duke UP, 2016)

Iyko Day
Alien Capital
Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Duke University Press, 2016

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 17, 2020 Nancy Ko

In our efforts to comprehend the systematic dispossession of indigenous peoples in settler colonies such as the United States, Canada, Australia, or Israel, the notion that “invasion is a structure, not merely an event,” first articulated by Patrick Wolfe, has become something of a maxim for critical theorists. Part of... Read More

Ivan V. Small, “Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam” (Cornell UP, 2018)

Ivan V. Small
Currencies of Imagination
Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam
Cornell University Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network February 6, 2020 Reighan Gillam

Overseas Vietnamese are estimated to remit 15 billion dollars annually to family that remains in Vietnam. Ivan V. Small moves beyond the numbers to examine how remittances affect sociality and human relations in his book Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam (Cornell University Press, 2018). Although... Read More

Jane H. Hong, “Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion” (UNC Press, 2019)

Jane H. Hong
Gates to Asia
A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 17, 2020 Siobhan Barco

Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In... Read More

Ava Chin
Great Books
Ava Chin on Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior'
Think About It, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network December 31, 2019 Uli Baer

What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget? What if we discover a truth from the past that shaped us even though we didn’t know it? Maxine Hong Kingston’s 1975 masterpiece, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, transformed American literature by adding... Read More

Charlotte Brooks, “American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949” (U California Press, 2019)

Charlotte Brooks
American Exodus
Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network December 30, 2019 Ian Shin

Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination they faced in the United States. Charlotte Brooks tells the story of these emigres in American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949 (University... Read More

Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)

Perla Guerrero
Nuevo South
Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place
University of Texas Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American South October 31, 2019 Derek Litvak

Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South by examining the mixed reactions refugees, immigrants, and migrants, from different countries, received in Arkansas in the latter half... Read More