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Asian American Sexualities dispels the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian stereotype in the US. The collection includes empirical research, critical essays, personal accounts, interviews, and creative writing by Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino contributors. Topics discussed include: * sexuality and identity politics * gay and lesbian film makers * same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature.
In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo
and Khyati Y. Joshi put together a wide-ranging and important
collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and
religion and Asian American communities - a combination so often
missing both in the scholarly literature and in public discourse.
Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national
debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic
freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are
longstanding ones in the United States. The essays included in the
volume feature dimensions of traditions such as Islam, Hinduism,
Sikhism as well as how religion engages with topics such as
religious affiliation (or lack thereof), the legacy of the Vietnam
War, and popular culture. The contributors also address the role of
survey data, pedagogy, methodology, and literature that is richly
complementary and necessary for understanding the scope and range
of the subject of Asian American religions. These essays attest to
the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at
the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage
and discourse. This collection will certainly serve as an
invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers
with interests in Asian American religions in fields such as ethnic
and Asian American studies, religious studies, American studies,
and related fields that focus on immigration and race.
California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by
Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of
"Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts,
this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects
to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here,
"California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an
identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary,
labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world.
Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and
studies of the "Golden State" as the embodiment of "frontier
mentality" and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal,
regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural
production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical
essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text
excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where
knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity
of California's landscape and labor in the production of arts and
culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming
foregrounds "sensing" and "imagining" place, vividly, as it hopes
to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement.
In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities
imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today,
paving the way for what is yet to be.
Out of the Dust is a collection of new poems by activist, leader,
poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San
Francisco's second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems
from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on
September 11, 2001. Drawing from her own background as a Sansei
(third generation) Japanese American, Mirikitani reflects on the
many ways we connect through the dust and our ability to rise and
renew ourselves from this place. From the dust of the World Trade
Center in New York to the retaliatory ashes of the dead in
America's war in Afghanistan, the poems in this volume seek to
explicate the connections of our humanity to the reactionary
profiling of people of Middle Eastern descent and different
ethnicities, comparing these choices to the incarceration of
Japanese Americans during World War II. Mirikitani's poems cover
topics about rape, incest, the continued struggle for justice and
economic equality, and the poet's experiences throughout her
50-year career at Glide Foundation and Church in San Francisco,
where she has helped to create groundbreaking programs for the
poor, women and children, and those who are healing from sexual
assault, violence and abuse. Though constructed from a depth of
experiences with struggle, these poems also erupt in celebration of
marriage, daughters, and the discovery of self through diversity.
In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo
and Khyati Y. Joshi assemble a wide-ranging and important
collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and
religion and Asian American communities - a combination so often
missing both in the scholarly literature and in public discourse.
Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national
debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic
freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are
longstanding ones in the United States. The essays feature
dimensions of traditions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism, as
well as how religion engages with topics that include religious
affiliation (or lack thereof), the legacy of the Vietnam War, and
popular culture. The contributors also address the role of survey
data, pedagogy, methodology, and literature that is richly
complementary and necessary for understanding the scope and range
of the subject of Asian American religions. These essays attest to
the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at
the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage
and discourse. This collection will certainly serve as an
invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers
with interests in Asian American religions, ethnic and Asian
American studies, religious studies, American studies, and related
fields that focus on immigration and race.
Freedom without Justice is a compelling story of one man’s
wrongful incarceration and the actions he took to survive ten years
in prison, while his supporters fought to win retrial and freedom.
As a memoir, it is at once a captivating chronicle of his life with
a trenchant description of how prisons end up producing the
non-normativity they purport to prevent. This unusual story is part
of an important chapter in the post-1964 history of Asian American
activism. Chol Soo Lee’s saga begins against a backdrop of great
historical change in Asian American communities following the
passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. At the age of twelve, Chol Soo
immigrated to the United States from South Korea to reunite with
his mother, who had arrived earlier as a military bride. In less
than a decade, Chol Soo finds himself labeled as a violent
criminal, convicted, and incarcerated. Quickly Chol Soo Lee became
a rallying point for an extraordinary pan–Asian American movement
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and Freedom without Justice
provides a rare and valuable glimpse into a pivotal moment in
history when the Asian American movement united around one of its
first major political campaigns. The Lee case brought together
immigrants and American-born Asians in a common cause of justice
and freedom. This alliance of supporters, organized under a
national network of the Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee, included
student activists, elderly immigrants, religious organizations,
small business owners, white-collar professionals, social workers,
lawyers, legal assistance organizations, and left-wing communist
groups nationwide. In the end the united front that mobilized to
attain social and legal justice for Chol Soo Lee was a remarkable
coalition of people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds
that transcended ethnicity, class, political ideology, religion,
generation, and language. This diverse grassroots social movement
initiated and organized a six-year “Free Chol Soo Lee!”
campaign that led to Lee’s historic release from San Quentin’s
death row in 1983. Incarcerated during a time when Asian American
inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee
embodies social realities of race and class inequalities drawing
readers into his social worlds—war-torn Korea, the streets of San
Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and
death row.
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese
military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the
dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children,
rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in
Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family
finally immigrated to the United States, Tran Dinh Tru's memoir
provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as
a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese
reeducation camps. In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese
refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States.
Given the chaos of the evacuation, however, approximately 1,500
Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being
repatriated back to Vietnam. Tru was one of these repatriates. To
resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the
Vietnamese a large ship, the Viet Nam Thuong Tin. An experienced
naval commander, Tru became the captain of the ship and sailed the
repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, Tru was
imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.
Tru's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam,
internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes
between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps.
While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there
are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a
Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected
dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.
Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese
military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the
dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children,
rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in
Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family
finally immigrated to the United States, Tran Dinh Tru's memoir
provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as
a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese
reeducation camps. In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese
refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States.
Given the chaos of the evacuation, however, approximately 1,500
Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being
repatriated back to Vietnam. Tru was one of these repatriates. To
resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the
Vietnamese a large ship, the Viet Nam Thuong Tin. An experienced
naval commander, Tru became the captain of the ship and sailed the
repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, Tru was
imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.
Tru's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam,
internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes
between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the
U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps.
While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there
are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a
Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected
dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.
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