New Books in Asian American Studies

Jane H. Hong, “Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion” (UNC Press, 2019)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A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion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

Steven White, “World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Steven White
World War II and American Racial Politics
Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 18, 2019 Heath Brown

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War’s effects were much more complex than many assume. In order to unpack these complexities and mine underutilized sources of public opinion data, Steven White had written World War II and American... Read More

Jason Bayani
Locus

Omnidawn Publishing, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books Network October 15, 2019 Andrea Blythe

“Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani, discussing his new book Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019), which blends memoir and poetry into a stunning exploration of fragmented identities and the Pilipinx-American experience. Drawing inspiration from hip-hop and delving into the knotted complexity of... Read More

Dean Itsuji Saranillio, “Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood” (Duke UP, 2018)

Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Unsustainable Empire
Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 19, 2019 Chris Patterson

In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai‘i was undeserving of statehood because it... Read More