Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month- Recommended Readings
Written by Faculty:
William Wei
Professor - Modern China
- Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2016.
- The Asian American Movement. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1993.
Daryl Joji Maeda
Affiliate Professor, Ethinc Studies - Asian American Studies
- Moses, Michele S., Daryl J. Maeda, and Christina H. Paguyo. "Racial Politics, Resentment, and Affirmative Action: Asian Americans as "Model" College Applicants." The Journal of Higher Education (Columbus), vol. 90, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-26.
- "Nomad of the Transpacific: Bruce Lee as Method." American Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 3, 2017, pp. 741-761.
- Rethinking the Asian American Movement. Routledge, 2011.
- Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009.
Seema Sohi
Affiliate Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- “South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire and Migration in the United States,” Asian American Literature in Transition, Josephine Lee and Julia Lee eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- "Indian Anticolonialism and Security Regimes Across the British and American Empires." Journal of Modern European History, vol. 16, no. 3, 2018, pp. 335-352.
- Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America. Oxford University Press, New York, 2014
- "Sites of 'Sedition', Sites of Liberation: Gurdwaras, the Ghadar Party, and Anticolonial Mobilization." Sikh Formations, vol. 10, no. 1, 2014, pp. 5-22.
- “Repressing the ‘Hindu Menace’: Race, Anarchy, and Indian Anticolonialism," in Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery, eds., The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in the Age of U.S. Power. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
- "Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in the Transnational Western U.S.-Canadian Borderlands." The Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.), vol. 98, no. 2, 2011, pp. 420-436.
Further Recommendations:
- Hong, Cathy P. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2020.
- Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015.
- Lee, Shelly Sang-hee. Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream." Stanford University Press, 2022
- Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Nguyễn, Viet Tranh. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine. Anchor Books, 2003.
- Takaki, Ronald. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920. Manoa: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
- Weglyn, Michi Nishiura. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps. University of Washington Press, 1996.
- Ukai, Nancy, et. al., "50 Objects/Stories: The American Japanese Incarceration"