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Crip Colony by Sony Coráñez Bolton
ISBN: 9781478019565

Publication Date: 2023-02-17

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje.
Dos X by Sony Coráñez Bolton
ISBN: 9781477331378

Publication Date: 2025-06-10

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing.
Hyper Education by Pawan Dhingra
ISBN: 9781479831142

Publication Date: 2020-04-28

Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews with teachers, tutors, principals, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the why people participate in this phenomenon and examines how schools, families, and communities play their part. Moving past "Tiger Mom" stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families practice what he calls "hyper education" and whether or not it makes sense.
Life Behind the Lobby by Pawan Dhingra
ISBN: 9780804778824

Publication Date: 2012-04-25

Despite their dominance in the motel industry, Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget markets. Life Behind the Lobby explains Indian Americans' simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close look at their own role in sustaining that duality.
Managing Multicultural Lives by Pawan Dhingra
ISBN: 9780804755771

Publication Date: 2007-02-28

Using the words and experiences of Indian American and Korean American professionals themselves, Pawan Dhingra eloquently shows how people break down the popular "margins vs. mainstream" conception of group identity and construct a "lived hybridity."... indicat[ing] new, more nuanced understandings of immigrant adaptation, multiculturalism, and identity management that pertain to multiple types of immigrant groups.
Asian America by Pawan Dhingra; Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781509534289

Publication Date: 2021-06-08

Incorporating cutting-edge thinking and discussion of the latest current events, the authors critically examine key topics in the Asian-American experience, including education and work, family and culture, media and politics, and social hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality…. Through vivid examples and clear discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors explore the contributions of Asian American Studies, sociology, psychology, history, and other fields to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa.
Migrant Ecologies by James Beattie (Editor, Contribution by); Ryan Tucker Jones (Editor, Contribution by); Edward Dallam Melillo (Editor, Contribution by); Anand A. Yang (Series edited by); Kieko Matteson (Series edited by); William Matt Cavert (Contribution by); Holger Droessler (Contribution by); Katsuya Hirano (Contribution by); Hannah Cutting-Jones (Contribution by); Benjamin Madley (Contribution by); John R. McNeill (Contribution by); Ruth A. Morgan (Contribution by); Emily O'Gorman (Contribution by); Gregory Samantha Rosenthal (Contribution by); N. Ha'alilio Solomon (Contribution by); Lissa K. Wadewitz (Contribution by); Kristin A. Wintersteen (Contribution by); Frank Zelko (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780824891060

Publication Date: 2022-12-31

Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations over time, and their profound influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals, plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. It effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history, as well as for the Pacific Ocean as a necessary framework for understanding that history.

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