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Caring for Caregivers

Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis

By Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practices

Migrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout...

Nature Unfurled

Asian American Environmental Histories

By Connie Y. Chiang

Explores Asian Americans' diverse connections and interactions with the natural world

As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring...

Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia

Race and Reception

By David C. Oh, Benjamin Min Han

Showcases the dynamism of cross-cultural engagement with Korean media

Korean media has exploded in popularity across the globe in the past decade: BTS and other K-pop groups have packed stadiums, Parasite garnered record-breaking critical success, The...

Transpacific, Undisciplined

By Lily Wong, Christopher B. Patterson, Chien-ting Lin

Remaps the scope and methods of the transpacific approach

Antinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese teahouses, art...

Exiled to Motown

A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit

By Detroit JACL History Project Committee

During World War II, Detroit emerged as a relative space of freedom for Nisei permitted by the War Relocation Authority to leave sites of incarceration but banned from returning to their homes in the exclusion...

Resisting the Nuclear

Art and Activism across the Pacific

By Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields

A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities

From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed...

The Unknown Great

Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History

By Greg Robinson. With Jonathan van Harmelen

An astounding new set of biographical portraits in Japanese American history

Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth...

Island X

Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

By Wendy Cheng

Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campuses

Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s....

Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid

By Willyce Kim. Foreword by Eunsong Kim

A sapphic novel ahead of its time that delights in queer joy, love, and adventure

Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa...

Surviving the Sanctuary City

Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York

By Tina Shrestha

On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcement

Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating...

Seattle from the Margins

Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City

By Megan Asaka

The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built it

From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant...

George Tsutakawa

Early Works on Paper

By David F. Martin

One of the leading Northwest artists of his generation, George Tsutakawa (1910–97) is internationally known for his sculpture and fountain designs. However, a lesser-known aspect of his career was the production of blockprints, watercolors, and...

Picture Bride

A Novel

By Yoshiko Uchida. Foreword by Elena Tajima Creef

Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When...

New Women of Empire

Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America

By Chrissy Yee Lau

Strong, bold, and vivacious—Japanese American young women were leaders and heroines of the Roaring Twenties. Controversial to the male immigrant elite for their rebellion against gender norms, these women made indelible changes in the community,...

Uncle Rico's Encore

Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle

By Peter Bacho

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy community

From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty...

Contemporary Asian American Activism

Building Movements for Liberation

By Diane C. Fujino, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical care

In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and...

Awake in the River and Shedding Silence

By Janice Mirikitani. Foreword by Juliana Chang

Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literature

Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back...

Love Your Asian Body

AIDS Activism in Los Angeles

By Eric C. Wat

Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American Studies

Defying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movement

The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles...

Dancing Transnational Feminisms

Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

By Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, Alessandra Lebea Williams, D. Soyini Madison

Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-making

Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to...

Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist

An Issei Artist’s Journey

By Barbara Johns. Foreword by Gail M. Nomura. Contribution by David F. Martin

The first in-depth exploration of a prominent Seattle-based Issei artist

Born in Japan, acclaimed Seattle artist Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956) came to the United States as a child of ten, received artistic recognition by age twenty, and...