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Between the Lines
South Asians and Postcoloniality
edited by Bahri, Deepika and Mary Vasudeva

384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-468-0
cloth 978-1-56639-467-3
Excerpt available

Creating a Buddhist Community
A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley
Bao, Jiemin

204 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-0955-3
cloth 978-1-4399-0954-6

Locating Filipino Americans
Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space
Bonus, Rick

248 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-779-7
cloth 978-1-56639-778-0
Excerpt available

Reframing Transracial Adoption
Korean Adoptees, White Parents and the Politics of Kinship
Brian, Kristi

230 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0184-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0183-0
Excerpt available

The Cry and the Dedication
Bulosan, Carlos, edited by E. San Juan, Jr.

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-296-9
cloth 978-1-56639-295-2
Excerpt available

On Becoming Filipino
Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan
Bulosan, Carlos, edited by E. San Juan, Jr.

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-310-2
cloth 978-1-56639-309-6

Hapa Girl
A Memoir
Chai, May-lee

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2007
paper 978-1-59213-616-2
cloth 978-1-59213-615-5
Excerpt available

Chinese American Transnationalism
The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era
edited by Chan, Sucheng

312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-435-9
cloth 978-1-59213-434-2
Excerpt Available

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-753-4
cloth 978-1-59213-752-7
Excerpt available

Entry Denied
Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943
Chan, Sucheng

320 pp • Spring 1991
paper 978-1-56639-201-3
cloth 978-0-87722-798-4

Hmong Means Free
Life in Laos and America
edited by Chan, Sucheng

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-163-4
cloth 978-1-56639-162-7
Excerpt available

The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation
Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings
edited by Chan, Sucheng

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006
paper 978-1-59213-501-1
cloth 978-1-59213-500-4
Excerpt available

Smuggled Chinese
Clandestine Immigration to the United States
Chin, Ko-lin, foreword by Douglas S. Massey

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1999
paper 978-1-56639-733-9
cloth 978-1-56639-732-2
Excerpt available

Doing What Had to Be Done
The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim
Chin, Soo-Young

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-694-3
cloth 978-1-56639-693-6
Excerpt available

Paper Son
One Man's Story
Chin, Tung Pok with Winifred C. Chin, introduction by K. Scott Wong

184 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-801-5
cloth 978-1-56639-800-8
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Hollywood Asian
Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance
Chung, Hye Seung

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-516-5
cloth 978-1-59213-515-8

246 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1227-0
cloth 978-1-4399-1226-3

The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
edited by Collet, Christian, Pei-te Lien
Foreword by Don Nakanishi

252 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-861-6
cloth 978-1-59213-860-9
Excerpt available

Literary Gestures
The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
edited by Davis, Rocío G. and Sue-Im Lee

248 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-365-9
cloth 978-1-59213-364-2
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Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States
Dong, Lan

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-59213-971-2
cloth 978-1-59213-970-5
Excerpt available

264 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0178-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0177-9
Excerpt available

Q & A
Queer in Asian America
edited by Eng, David L. and Alice Y. Hom

445 pp • 7x10 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-640-0
cloth 978-1-56639-639-4
Excerpt available

Asian American Panethnicity
Bridging Institutions and Identities
Espiritu, Yen Le

238 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-1-56639-096-5
cloth 978-0-87722-955-1
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Filipino American Lives
Espiritu, Yen Le

240 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-317-1
cloth 978-1-56639-316-4
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The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
Fong, Timothy P.

240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-262-4
cloth 978-1-56639-123-8
Excerpt available

Organizing Asian American Labor
The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
Friday, Chris

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-398-0
cloth 978-1-56639-139-9

The Day the Dancers Stayed
Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora
Gonzalves, Theodore S.

228 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2009
paper 978-1-59213-729-9
cloth 978-1-59213-728-2
Excerpt available

San Francisco's International Hotel
Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
Habal, Estella

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-446-5
cloth 978-1-59213-445-8
Excerpt available

Countervisions
Asian American Film Criticism
edited by Hamamoto, Darrell Y. and Sandra Liu

317 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-776-6
cloth 978-1-56639-775-9

The Politics of Diversity
Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California
Horton, John

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-328-7
cloth 978-1-56639-327-0
Excerpt available

But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise
New Asian American Plays
edited by Houston, Velina Hasu, foreword by Roberta Uno

520 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1997
paper 978-1-56639-538-0
cloth 978-1-56639-537-3
Excerpt available

The Politics of Life
edited by Houston, Velina Hasu

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1993
paper 978-1-56639-001-9
cloth 978-1-56639-000-2

Across the Pacific
Asian Americans and Globalization
edited by Hu-DeHart, Evelyn

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-824-4
cloth 978-1-56639-710-0
Excerpt available

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2014
paper 978-1-43991-091-7
cloth 978-1-43991-090-0

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0303-2
cloth 978-1-4399-0302-5
Excerpt available

Asian American Literature
An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
Kim, Elaine H.

363 pp • Spring 1982
paper 978-0-87722-352-8
cloth 978-0-87722-260-6

The Racial Logic of Politics
Asian Americans and Party Competition
Kim, Thomas P.

208 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-549-3
cloth 978-1-59213-548-6

292 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0759-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0758-0
Excerpt available

220 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0587-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0586-9
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Recovered Legacies
Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature
edited by Lawrence, Keith and Floyd Cheung

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-119-8
cloth 978-1-59213-118-1
Excerpt available

336 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0516-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0515-9
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Performing Asian America
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
Lee, Josephine

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1997
paper 978-1-56639-637-0
cloth 978-1-56639-502-1
Excerpt available

Re/collecting Early Asian America
Essays in Cultural History
edited by Lee, Josephine, Imogene L. Lim and Yuko Matsukawa

384 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2002
paper 978-1-56639-964-7
cloth 978-1-56639-963-0
Excerpt available

Orientals
Asian Americans in Popular Culture
Lee, Robert G.

288 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-753-7
cloth 978-1-56639-658-5
Excerpt available

Claiming the Oriental Gateway
Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0214-1
cloth 978-1-4399-0213-4
Excerpt available

Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie

198 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2010
cloth 978-1-43990-130-4
Excerpt available

Making Ethnic Choices
California's Punjabi Mexican Americans
Leonard, Karen Isaksen

352 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1992
paper 978-1-56639-202-0
cloth 978-0-87722-890-5
Excerpt available

The Making of Asian America through Political Participation
Lien, Pei-te

312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-895-4
cloth 978-1-56639-894-7
Excerpt available

Reading the Literatures of Asian America
edited by Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Amy Ling

384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-0-87722-936-0
cloth 978-0-87722-935-3
Excerpt available

Transnational Asian American Literature
Sites and Transits
edited by Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, John Blair Gamber, Stephen Hong Sohn and Gina Valentino

320 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-451-9
cloth 978-1-59213-450-2
Excerpt available

Yellow Light
The Flowering of Asian American Arts
edited by Ling, Amy

384 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-817-6
cloth 978-1-56639-670-7

Chinese St. Louis
From Enclave to Cultural Community
Ling, Huping

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 978-1-59213-039-9
cloth 978-1-59213-038-2
Excerpt available

Prisons and Patriots
Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory
Lyon, Cherstin M.

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0187-8
cloth 978-1-4399-0186-1
Excerpt available

Desis in the House
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
Maira, Sunaina Marr

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-927-2
cloth 978-1-56639-926-5
Excerpt available

Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
edited by Manalansan, Martin F.

272 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-773-5
cloth 978-1-56639-772-8
Excerpt available

Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Mannur, Anita

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2009
paper 978-1-4399-0078-9
cloth 978-1-4399-0077-2
Excerpt available

From Tian'anmen to Times Square
Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997
Marchetti, Gina

320 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-278-2
cloth 978-1-59213-277-5

216 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1056-6
cloth 978-1-4399-1055-9

Crossing the Neoliberal Line
Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis
Mitchell, Katharyne

296 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 978-1-59213-084-9
cloth 978-1-59213-083-2
Excerpt available

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
An Annotated Edition
Noguchi, Yone, edited by Edward Marx and Laura E. Franey

224 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-555-4
cloth 978-1-59213-554-7

No Sword to Bury
Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II
Odo, Franklin S.

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003
paper 978-1-59213-270-6
cloth 978-1-59213-207-2
Excerpt available

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-756-5
cloth 978-1-59213-755-8
Excerpt available

Cane Fires
The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945
Okihiro, Gary Y.

360 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1991
paper 978-0-87722-945-2
cloth 978-0-87722-799-1
Excerpt available

The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring
edited by Ong, Paul, Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng

344 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-218-1
cloth 978-1-56639-217-4

This Is All I Choose to Tell
History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy

216 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0217-2
cloth 978-1-4399-0216-5

Picturing Model Citizens
Civility in Asian American Visual Culture
Phu, Thy

218 pp • 6.125x9.25 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0721-4
cloth 978-1-4399-0720-7
Excerpt available

Working Feminism
Pratt, Geraldine

224 pp • 234x156mm • Spring 2004
paper 978-1-59213-264-5
cloth 978-1-59213-263-8
Excerpt available

Discrepant Histories
Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures
edited by Rafael, Vicente L.

360 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-356-0
cloth 978-1-56639-355-3

280 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2016
paper 978-1-4399-1155-6
cloth 978-1-4399-1154-9

Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free
Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
Reyes, Adelaida

248 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-686-8
cloth 978-1-56639-685-1
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Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras
Coming of Age in American Ethnic Communities
Rodriguez, Evelyn Ibatan

226 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2013
paper 978-1-4399-0628-6
cloth 978-1-4399-0627-9

The Philippine Temptation
Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations
San Juan, E., Jr.

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1996
paper 978-1-56639-418-5
cloth 978-1-56639-417-8
Excerpt available

Racial Feelings
Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion
Santa Ana, Jeffrey

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1193-8
cloth 978-1-4399-1192-1

Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Shah, Bindi V.

216 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0815-0
cloth 978-1-4399-0813-6
Excerpt available

A Part, Yet Apart
South Asians in Asian America
edited by Shankar, Lavina Dhingra and Rajini Srikanth

320 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-578-6
cloth 978-1-56639-577-9
Excerpt available

Economic Citizens
A Narrative of Asian American Visibility
So, Christine

190 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59213-585-1
cloth 978-1-59213-584-4
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Helping Out
Children's Labor in Ethnic Businesses
Song, Miri

247 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-709-4
cloth 978-1-56639-708-7
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Constructing the Enemy
Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law
Srikanth, Rajini

220 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0324-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0323-0
Excerpt available

The World Next Door
South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
Srikanth, Rajini

304 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004
paper 978-1-59213-081-8
cloth 978-1-59213-080-1
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Sweating Saris
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
Srinivasan, Priya

238 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0430-5
cloth 978-1-4399-0429-9
Excerpt available

Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
Takahashi, Jere

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-659-2
cloth 978-1-56639-550-2
Excerpt available

234 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1119-8
cloth 978-1-4399-1118-1

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1019-1
cloth 978-1-4399-1018-4

Positively No Filipinos Allowed
Building Communities and Discourse
edited by Tiongson, Antonio T., Jr., Edgardo V. Gutierrez and Ricardo V. Gutierrez, foreword by Lisa Lowe

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-122-8
cloth 978-1-59213-121-1
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Unquiet Tropes
Form, Race, and Asian American Literature
Tsou, Elda E.

224 pp • 5.5x8.5 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1125-9
cloth 978-1-4399-1124-2

198 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0680-4
cloth 978-1-4399-0679-8
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232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-665-0
cloth 978-1-59213-664-3
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Contemporary Asian American Communities
Intersections and Divergences
edited by Võ, Linda Trinh and Rick Bonus

264 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2002
paper 978-1-56639-938-8
cloth 978-1-56639-937-1
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Mobilizing an Asian American Community
Võ, Linda Trinh

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2004
paper 978-1-59213-262-1
cloth 978-1-59213-261-4
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The Asian American Movement
Wei, William

376 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1993
paper 978-1-56639-183-2
cloth 978-1-56639-049-1
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The Sum of Our Parts
Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans
edited by Williams-León, Teresa and Cynthia L. Nakashima, foreword by Michael Omi

296 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-847-3
cloth 978-1-56639-846-6
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Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Space, Place, and Struggle
Wilson, Kathryn E.

278 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1215-7
cloth 978-1-4399-1214-0

Americans First
Chinese Americans and the Second World War
Wong, K. Scott

268 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-840-1
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Claiming America
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era
edited by Wong, K. Scott and Sucheng Chan

226 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-576-2
cloth 978-1-56639-575-5
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Yellow Journalist
Dispatches from Asian America
Wong, William

288 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-830-5
cloth 978-1-56639-829-9
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218 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0869-3
cloth 978-1-4399-0868-6
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An Immigrant Neighborhood
Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930
Yee, Shirley J.

256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-59213-128-0
cloth 978-1-59213-127-3
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Outside the Paint
When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground
Yep, Kathleen S.

216 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2009
cloth 978-1-59213-942-2
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Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Yoshihara, Mari

288 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59123-333-8
cloth 978-1-59123-332-1
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To Save China, To Save Ourselves
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York
Yu, Renqiu

253 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992
paper 978-1-56639-395-9
cloth 978-0-87722-996-4

The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Yun, Lisa

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59213-582-0
cloth 978-1-59213-581-3
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Chinatown
The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave
Zhou, Min, foreword by Alejandro Portes

316 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1992
paper 978-1-56639-337-9
cloth 978-0-87722-934-6

Contemporary Chinese America
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation
Zhou, Min

328 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-858-6
cloth 978-1-59213-857-9
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