New Books in Asian American Studies

Ronak K. Kapadia, “Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War”(Duke UP, 2019)

Ronak K. Kapadia
Insurgent Aesthetics
Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War
Duke University Press, 2019

Mobilities and Methods NBN Special Series New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society September 3, 2020 Lakshita Malik

In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a distinctive... Read More

Kareem Khubchandani, “Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife” (Michigan UP, 2020)

Kareem Khubchandani
Ishtyle
Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife
University of Michigan Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies August 24, 2020 Sneha Annavarapu

Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020) follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of nightlife cultures through... Read More

Uzma Quraishi, “Redefining the Immigrant South” (UNC Press, 2020)

Uzma Quraishi
Redefining the Immigrant South
Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War
University of North Carolina Press, 2020

New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books in the American South August 21, 2020 Ian Shin

In Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press), Uzma Quraishi (Sam Houston State University) follows the Cold War-era journeys of South Asian international students from U.S. Information Service reading rooms in India and Pakistan, to the halls of... Read More

Maile Arvin, “Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania” (Duke UP, 2020)

Maile Arvin
Possessing Polynesians
The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network August 13, 2020 Alex Golub

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania (Duke University Press, 2020) Maile Arvin argues that a... Read More

Vanita Reddy, “Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture” (Temple UP, 2016)

Vanita Reddy
Fashioning Diaspora
Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture
Temple University Press, 2016

Mobilities and Methods New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies July 30, 2020 Lakshita Malik

Vanita Reddy, in her book Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture (Temple University Press, 2016), locates diasporic transnationality, affiliations and intimacies through the analytic of beauty. Through her analysis of Asian American literary fiction and performance artwork and installations, Reddy lingers on moments, objects and subjective positions that reveal the potentiality of beauty. Not just... Read More

Crystal Mun-hye Baik, “Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique” (Temple UP, 2020)

Crystal Mun-hye Baik
Reencounters
On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique
Temple University Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 10, 2020 Laura Ha Reizman

This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended. How are the particularities of the Korean War, as an unended war, expressed in the lives of survivors and their descendants? This work explores how violence is narrated... Read More

Tamara Venit-Shelton, “Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace” (Yale UP, 2019)

Tamara Venit-Shelton
Herbs and Roots
A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
Yale University 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 Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network June 8, 2020 Ian Shin

The modern popularity of acupuncture and herbal medicine belies the long history of Chinese medicine in the U.S. In Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace (Yale University Press, 2019), Tamara Venit-Shelton (Claremont McKenna College) examines the historical contexts that shaped perceptions of traditional... Read More

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, “Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California” (Stanford UP, 2019)

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
Arab Routes
Pathways to Syrian California
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network May 20, 2020 Joshua Donovan

In her latest book, Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California(Stanford University Press, 2019), Sarah M. A. Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to call Southern California home. Rather than a simple story of departure and arrival, Gualtieri traces the surprising twists and turns of Syrian... Read More

Jia Lynn Yang, “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965” (Norton, 2020)

Jia Lynn Yang
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

Mobilities and Methods New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 14, 2020 Ian Shin

In One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), Jia Lynn Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy. Undoing the xenophobic national origins... Read More

Pawan Dhingra
Hyper Education
Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough
NYU Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Education New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network April 17, 2020 Michael O. Johnston

Pawan Dhingra‘s new book Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough (NYU Press, 2020) is an up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them. Dhingra reveals the subculture of high-achievement in... Read More