Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology

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“A generation ago, scholars held out for the promise that, in addition to the West and the Pacific, Asian American studies could be anchored in communities that were ‘east of California.’ Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology delivers on that promise, with a collection of incisive writing by activists and educators that is necessary, timely, and vital.”

– Theodore S. Gonzalves, Ph.D.
Curator, Asian Pacific American Histories, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
President, Association for Asian American Studies (2018-2020)

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“Situated against a backdrop of increased xenophobia, reinvigorated nativism, rising Islamophobia, and intensified racism in the United States, Asian American Matters potently reminds its readers of the possibilities of coalitional activism and political dissent. Such capacious dynamics, consistently at the forefront of Asian American Matters, evocatively reflect and refract the revolutionary legacies which brought the very notion of “Asian America” into being.”

– Cathy Schlund-Vials
Director, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute & Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
President, Association for Asian American Studies (2016-2018)

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“Students of Asian America should add Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology to their bookshelves. Editor Russell C. Leong brings together academics and writers to piece together the diverse strands that make Asian America a political possibility and a community of connections and intersections.”

– Deepa Iyer, Author, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

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A commemorative edition on the fifth-year anniversary of CUNY FORUM, founded in 2013 to advance thinking & action in Asian American Studies. Asian American Matters (ISBN: 978-0-692-94978-8, 256 pp., illustrated, $25) features forty New York and U.S. scholars writers, artists and activists, is the first national anthology to address post 9/11 issues around Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, and Muslims in relation to Asian American Studies and communities.

Within Asian American Matters, the 50-year history of Asian American Studies as a scholarly and cultural discipline, together with video, open-source, and on-line educational sites, are provided by renowned writers, including Shahidul Alam, Meena Alexander, Tomie Arai, Moustafa Bayoumi, Sylvia Chan-Malik, John J. Chin, Margaret M. Chin, Loan Thi Dao, Mariam Durrani, Raymond Fong, Luis H. Francia, Molly Higgens, Yibing Huang, Tarry Hum, Shirley Hune, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Mary Uyematsu Kao, Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Prema Kurien, Peter Kwong, Son Ca Lam, Vinay Lal, Russell C. Leong, Robert Lee, Zai Liang, Vivian Louie, Erik Love, Joyce Moy, Kevin L. Nadal, Don T. Nakanishi, Phil Tajitsu Nash, Songkhla Nguyen, Glenn Omatsu, Vinit Parmar, Raymond Pun, David K. Song, Samuel Stein, Rajini Srikanth, Eric Tang, Shirley Suet-ling Tang, Antony Wong, Ming Xia, and Judy Yung.

  1. Taking on a Post-9/11 World with Asian American Studies
  2. Fifty Years of Past & Futures (of Asian American Studies)
  3. Writing Across, Against and Beyond Borders
  4. Activism, Art & Media
  5. Community Research and Online Methodologies
  6. Passages: Peter Kwong

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Editor: Russell C. Leong

Publisher: Joyce O. Moy

Assistant Publisher: Antony Wong

Editorial Intern: Tiana Cheng-Wilson

Proofreader: J. Mayor

Journal Design: William Tam & Antony Wong

Information Technology: Zhu-Hui Wu

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