Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories
Date Published: 3/23/2021
In response to recent acts of violence against Asian Americans stemming from a long history of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States, we wish to offer resources to contextualize the experiences of Asian and Pacific Americans. The articles, issues, and books in this reading list discuss not only complex histories and contemporary experiences of racism and imperialism, but also community formation, solidarity between marginalized groups, and worldmaking possibilities.
The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.
BOOK
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University
Rick Bonus
2020
BOOK
History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies
Ma Vang
2021
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Toward Thick Solidarity: Theorizing Empathy in Social Justice Movements
Roseann Liu and Savannah Shange
Radical History Review131, 2018
BOOK
Traffic in Asian Women
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
2020
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Staying In: Mitski, Ocean Vuong, and Asian American Asociality
Summer Kim Lee
Social Text138, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Navigating the Ocean in the School: Pacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and Indigeneity
Rick Bonus
positions 29:1, 2019
BOOK
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
David L. Eng and Shinhee Han
2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred: Patsy Mink, Antimilitarism, and Reimagining the Pacific World
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Meridians 18:2, 2019
BOOK
Empire′s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
2021
BOOK
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas
Jinah Kim
2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other Racial Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness
Wendy Thompson Taiwo
Meridians 16:1, 2018
BOOK
Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Christine R. Yano and Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka, editors
2018
JOURNAL ISSUE
Reconsidering the 2006 MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy
Winnie Won Yin Wong and Jing Wang, editors
positions 23:1, 2015
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vietnamese American New Orleans
Marguerite Nguyen
the minnesota review 84, 2015
BOOK
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
2013
JOURNAL ISSUE
Southeast Asian/American Studies
Fiona I. B. Ngô, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Mariam B. Lam, issue editors
positions 20:3, 2012
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Passing-as-if: Model-Minority Subjectivity and Women of Color Identification
Shireen M. Roshanravan
Meridians 10:1, 2010
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Interview with Peggy Saika by Loretta Ross
Peggy Saika and Loretta Ross
Meridians 10:2, 2010
BOOK
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen, editors
2008
BOOK
Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Estelle T. Lau
2007
BOOK
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
2007
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Where Is West Asia in Asian America?: “Asia” and The Politics of Space in Asian America
Sridevi Menon
Social Text 86, 2006
BOOK
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Nicholas De Genova, editor
2006
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness
Susan Koshy
boundary 2 28:1, 2001
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
positions 5:2, 1997
