Category - Social Science
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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
HardcoverOriginal price $190.00 - Original price $190.00Original price $190.00$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the con...
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My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces "that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American" (Kirkus R...
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Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism: Concepts, Theory, and Evidence Based Approaches
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their disti...
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Asian American Histories of the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansi...
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Asian American Histories of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansi...
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Resisting Asian American Invisibility: The Politics of Race and Education
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Resisting Asian American Invisibility highlights one group's struggle for educational justice. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in formal a...
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Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the move...
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The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a tra...
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Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historica...
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Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film fes...
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Ornamentalism
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained the...
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The American Dream in Vietnamese
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In her research on popular culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in th...
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Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women ma...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese American...
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Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Karin Aguilar-San Juan examines the contradictions of Vietnamese American community and identity in two emblematic yet different locales: Little Sa...
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The Other One Percent: Indians in America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make ...
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Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerA magical tour through the past three decades (and more) of Asian American history and culture, a journey of sweat, tea...
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporti...
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The Loneliest Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A "provocative and sweeping" (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Blac...
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Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experie...
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Stay True: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through a...
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then tur...
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Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially ...
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Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as “domestic enemy aliens” during World War II, most other Americans succumbed t...
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