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.