CSUF Asian Pacific Islander Student Association Okihiro
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology - E.J.R. Hundred!
Some literature in Asian American Studies:
Books
Behold the Many – Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Margins and Mainstreams - Gary Y. David
Asian American Women and Men (second edition) – Yen Le Espiritu
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture - Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren
Relationships Among Asian American Women - Jean Lau Chin
Asian American Political Action - James S. Lai
Reth
inking the Asian American Movement - Daryl J. Maeda
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White - Frank Wu
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia - Mishra, Pankaj
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America - Vivek Bald
Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education - Robert T. Teranishi
Current Issues in Asian and Pacific American Education - Russell Endo, Clara C. Park, and John Nobuya Tsuchida
Unraveling the “Model Minority” Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth- Stacey J. Lee
The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity - Sheng-Mei Ma
The Hyphenated American - John C. Papajohn
Model-Minority Imperialism - Victor Bascara
Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asia America - Daryl J. Maeda
Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity - Jennifer Lee and Zhou Min
The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community - Pei-te Lien, M. Margaret Conway, and Janelle Wong
Politics of Asian Americans - Pei-te Lien
Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects - Gordon Chang
The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation - Pei-te Lien
Homebound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries - Espiritu Yen
Chinese American Transnational Politics - Him Mark Lai and Madeline Hsu
Asian-American Politics - Andrew Aoki and Okiyoshi Takeda
The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans - Christian Collet and Pei-Te Lien
Playing the Race Card - George J. Sefa Dei, Leene Luke Karumanchery, and Nisha Karumanchery-Luik
Asian American Dreams - Helen Zia
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans - Ronald Takaki
The Asian American Movement - William Wei
Fresh off the Boat: A Memoir - Eddie Huang
East Meets West: Writing in Two Hemispheres - Andrew Lam
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora - Andrew Lam
Migritude - Shailja Patel
Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today - Vijay Prashad
Indian Accents Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film - Shilpa S. Dave
Common Ground: Reimagining American History - Gary Y. Okihiro
Inside Out and Back Again - Thanh Ha Lai
Coalition Building
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles - Laura Pulido
From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline - Fabio Rojas
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos - Rodolfo Acuna
The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era - Peniel E. Joseph
Racialized Politics, The Debate about Racism in America - David O. Sears, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo
Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City - Claire Jean Kim
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto - Travis Smiley and Cornel West
Race Matters - Cornel West
Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb - Leland Saito
Black Visions - Michael Dawson
Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics - Michael Dawson
Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism - Manning Marable
Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics - Manning Marable
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities - Mary C. Waters
Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America - Mary C. Waters
Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles - Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement - Carlos Munoz
The New Americas: A Guide to Immigration since 1965 - Mary C. Waters, Reed Ueda, Helen B. Marrow
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities - Rychetta Watkins
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans - Kwang Chung Kim
Women of Color and the Reproductive Movement - Jennifer Nelson
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America - Moustafa Bayoumi
Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights - Aili Mari Tripp
Women and Politics in a Global World - Sarah Henderson
Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective - Shawn M. Burn
Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model - Ashley Mears
Feminist Frontiers - Verta Taylor
P**nland: How P**n Hijacked Our Sexuality - Gail Dines
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since 1945 - Melani McAllister
I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim - Maria M. Ebrahimji
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study - Orlando Patterson
Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam - Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Women Without Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties in Iranian Modernity - Afsaneh Najmabadi
Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising - Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese
Articles
Novels
Mona in the Promised Land – Gish Jen
My Year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki
Stop Kiss – Diana Son (play)
One! Demons! – Lynda Barry (graphic novel)
Kelly – Monique Truong
Wooden Fish Songs – Ruthanne Lum McCunn
The Foreign Student – Susan Choi
My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story (Vintage) – Abraham Verghese
Bitter in the Mouth – Monique Truong
“Traveling to Opal” – Paisley Rekdal
The Purple Heart – Vincent Yee
The Gangster We are All looking For – le thi diem thuy
VIETNAMERICA – GB Tran (graphic novel)
Secret Identities – artist collab (comic book style)
Shattered – artist collab (comic book style)
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang (graphic novel)
Dream Jungle - Jessica Hagedorn
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan- Lisa See (or any of her books: Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy)
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories - Yiyun Li
Red Scarf Girl - Ji-li Jiang
I Love Yous Are for White People - Lac Su
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner - B**h Minh Nguyen
Waiting and In the Pond - Ha Jin
Paper Daughter: A Memoir by Elaine Mar
Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok
Blu’s Hanging and Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater - Lois Ann Yamanaka
When My Name Was Keoko - Linda Sue Park
Ribbons - Lawerence Yep
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break - Lensey Namikoka
Quiet As They Come - Angie Chau
The Fold - Na An
Catfish and Mandala - Andrew Pham
Secondhand World - Katherine Min
Native Speaker - Chang Rae Lee
The Chickencoop Chinaman (play) - Frank Chin
Establishing Asian American Studies
A Companion to Asian American Studies - Kent A. Ono
In Defense of Asian American Studies - Sucheng Chan
Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader - Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu
Films
Vincent Chin
Vincent Who
Journey From The Fall
Daughter From Da Nang
Vietnam: American Holocaust
A Village Called Versailles
Operation Babylift
Better Luck Tomorrow (trailer). Made by young Asian-American filmmakers about overachieving Asian-American high school students who decide to take advantage of their model minority status and achieve a perceived “freedom” through drugs, theft, and violence. The Motel - Michael Kang
