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Hapa Girl
 
Hapa Girl
A Memoir

Chai, May-lee

Honorable Mention at the 2007 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards

Named one of 2008’s Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize

Paper Son
 
Paper Son
One Man's Story

Chin, Tung Pok with Winifred C. Chin, introduction by K. Scott Wong

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2001

Mobilizing Gay Singapore
 
Mobilizing Gay Singapore
Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State

Chua, Lynette J.

Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015

Awarded a certificate from the International Convention of Asia Scholar's Book Prize acknowledging it as Ground-Breaking Matter in the Social Sciences category by the 2015 Reading Committee, 2015

Q & A
 
Q & A
Queer in Asian America

edited by Eng, David L. and Alice Y. Hom

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999

Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Non-Fiction, 1998

Book Award from The Association for Asian American Studies, 2001

Asian American Panethnicity
 
Asian American Panethnicity
Espiritu, Yen Le

Outstanding Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1994

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994

The First Suburban Chinatown
 
The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remarking of Monterey Park, California

Fong, Timothy P.

Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995

Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999

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

Friday, Chris

Outstanding Book in History Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995

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

Horton, John

Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Section of the American Sociological Association, 1996

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
 
Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Hum, Tarry

Honorable Mention from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's Paul Davidoff Award, 2015

Performing Asian America
 
Performing Asian America
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage

Lee, Josephine

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2016

Orientals
 
Orientals
Asian Americans in Popular Culture

Lee, Robert G.

Best Book Award Winner Culture Studies/Popular Culture, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2000

Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies from the American Studies Association, 1999

Best Book Award for the Social Construction of Race, The American Political Science Association, 1999

Searching for Mr. Chin
 
Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie

Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, 2011

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

Best Book published in the areas of Political Participation, Voting, Elections, and Political Behavior in Racial/Ethnic Politics by the Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political Science Association (APSA), 2002

Desis in the House
 
Desis in the House
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City

Maira, Sunaina Marr

Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association, 2003

Cultural Compass
 
Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America

edited by Manalansan, IV, Martin F.

Cultural Studies Book Award, given by the Association for Asian American Studies, 2000

Cane Fires
 
Cane Fires
The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

Okihiro, Gary Y.

Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992

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

Reyes, Adelaida

Book Award from the U.S. Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2000

The Philippine Temptation
 
The Philippine Temptation
Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations

San Juan, Jr., E.

Outstanding Academic Book, Choice, 1996

Laotian Daughters
 
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice

Shah, Bindi V.

Association for Asian American Studies' Outstanding Book Award in the category Social Science, 2014

Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013

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

Srikanth, Rajini

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005

Cultural Studies Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006

Sweating Saris
 
Sweating Saris
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

Srinivasan, Priya

Emory Elliott Book Award, 2012

Nisei/Sansei
 
Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics

Takahashi, Jere

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997

Mobilizing an Asian American Community
 
Mobilizing an Asian American Community
Vő, Linda Trinh

Social Science Book Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006

Claiming America
 
Claiming America
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era

edited by Wong, K. Scott and Sucheng Chan

Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2001

To Save China, To Save Ourselves
 
To Save China, To Save Ourselves
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

Yu, Renqiu

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994

Outstanding Book in History Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1993

The Coolie Speaks
 
The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba

Yun, Lisa

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008

Chinatown
 
Chinatown
The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave

Zhou, Min, foreword by Alejandro Portes

Honorable Mention Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association, 1993


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