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“augusto espiritu”

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  • Filipino Studies

    Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

    Edited by Martin F. Manalansan, Augusto Espiritu ...
    After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Pacific America

    Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

    by Lon Kurashige, Eiichiro Azuma, Keith L. Camacho, Greg Dvorak, Professor Augusto Espiritu, Dr. Peter E. Hamilton, Professor Brian Masaru Hayashi, Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor Phuong Nguyen, Professor Christen T. Sasaki0, Professor Elizabeth Sinn1, John E. Wills, , Jr.2, Professor Susie Woo3, Yujin Yaguchi4, Professor Kariann Akemi Yokota5 ...
    In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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  • Golden Child

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  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

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  • What Is Modernity?

    Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi

    Translated by Richard Calichman ...
    by Yoshimi Takeuchi ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchi's writings ... Read more

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  • The East/West Quartet

    by Ping Chong, Jessica Hagedorn ...
    * First volume of a three volume series documenting the work of Ping Chong * Ping Chong and Co. at New York's La Mama produces new work each year ... Read more

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  • Transitive Cultures

    Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

    by Christopher B. Patterson ...
    Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize from the American Studies AssociationTexts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists?Transitive Cultures offers a ... Read more

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  • Philip Vera Cruz

    A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement

    by Lilia Villanueva, Craig Scharlin ...
    Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer.Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) ... Read more

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  • Claiming the Oriental Gateway

    Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

    by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally—and how ... Read more

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  • Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

    by A. Mohan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. ... Read more

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  • Hmong Means Free

    Life in Laos and America

    by Sucheng Chan ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity.From Jou Yee Xiong's Life ... Read more

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