This book answers recent calls in criticism and theory to examine the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre…
A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that there were a number of young women just out of business school who would be glad to take those jobs that the Japanese American women were vacating. She said if these excuses are used to hire…
A column authored by "bf" mentions the carticature of Japanese in contrast to Germans and Itaians, whose ancestral homelands are at war with the U.S.; the use of racial slurs against Japanese and how Germans and Italians are not similarly demeaned;…
Roots and Reflections is a pioneering study of the establishment and growth of the vibrant South Asian communities in the Pacific Northwest. The book unfolds through the voices of individuals who were an integral part of building local communities…
