Books in the Studies in Asian Americans series

Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company''s representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades.

This book reclaims Korean history in Hawaii through the examination of works by three local writers of Korean descent: Margaret Pai, Ty Pak, and Gary Pak.

This study explores play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community.

Asian American are the fastest growing minority in the United States comprising nearly 3 percent of the population. This book studies the relationship between mass media and this important minority.

Traces the experiences and cultural adaptation of Hmong refugees in the United States and studies the dynamics of immigrant and refugee communities.

Examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s.

Examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations.

Examines the effects of transnational migration on non-working class women whose husbands work in Taiwan and send remittances to support their wives and children in the US. This book contributes to theorizing the class and gender dimensions of international migration, and provides comparative data for the study of transnational migration.

This inter-disciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation.

Based on oral histories of Atalanta's Asian community, this book offers new insights into the rise of Asian communities in the region, commenting on their increasing diversity and giving particular attention to the lives of women.

A model for a way of productively engaging the current debates between deconstructive cultural criticism and the project of indigenization as these are played out in the struggles of Filipino and Filipino American academics seeking empowerment for their respective communities.

Based on the empirical analysis of surveys explores the relation between ethnic identity and electoral political participation on three levels: between the four major racial/ethnic groups Americans, inside the multi-ethnic Asian American population, and among Koreans as a specific ethnic group. Emp

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A book on the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in Puna, Hawai'i, investigates the stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives on the plantation.

Examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in San Francisco. This book analyzes the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the case.

This thought-provoking study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature by challenging current models of ethnic-studies criticism and analyses of 'ethnic' narrative subjectivity that emphasize the cultural politics of ethnic traditions.

As one of the few studies focusing on discourse analysis in this setting, this detailed yet far-reaching book, investigates the development of an ethno-Christian identity among the congregants of a multilingual Chinese evangelical church.

One of the first scholarly analyses of social constructions of Chinese masculinities, Chan argues that many of these notions are limited to stereotypes.

Asian American Culture on Stage captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's re-presentation of Asian Americans through the complicated social and cultural changes of the past three decades.