Sample readings

Erika Lee, “The ‘Yellow Peril’ and Asian Exclusion in the Americas.”

Louise Cainkar, "Fluid Terror Threat: A Genealogy of the Racialization of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans."

Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943

Azuma Eiichiro, “Mercantilists, Colonialists, and Laborers: Heterogeneous Origins of Japanese America”

Ichioka Yuji, “Japanese Immigrant Nationalism: The Issei and the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945”

Deenesh Sohoni, “Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities.” ​

Daniel Widener, “Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?" Asia, Asian America, and the Construction of Black California.”

Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, “The Formation of Asian American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-75.”

David M. Reimers, “An Unintended Reform: The 1965 Immigration Act and Third World Immigration to the United States.”

Eric K. Yamamoto, “What’s Next?: Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations.” ​

Sharon S. Lee, “Over-Represented and De-Minoritized: The Racialization of Asian Americans in Higher Education.”

Wen Lui, ​“Complicity and Resistance: Asian American Body Politics in Black Lives Matter.” ​

Vinay Harpalani, "DesiCrit: Theorizing the Racial Ambiguity of South Asian Americans."

Claire Jean Kim, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.”