Recent Scholarship
Asian American
Cha, Frank, “Growing Up in the Margins: Asian American Children in the Literature of the New South,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 128–44.
Chew, Kenneth, Mark Leach, and John M. Liu, “The Revolving Door to Gold Mountain: How Chinese Immigrants Got around U.S. Exclusion and Replenished the Chinese American Labor Pool, 1900–1910,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 410–30.
Kikukawa, Masako, “Kuniyoshi Yasuo no kimyona jigazo o megutte” (Inventing and performing the strange self-image of the Japanese American painter in Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s self portraits), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 175–95. In Japanese.
Lee, Rika, “Hawai Korian imin no nashonaruna katari no keisei: Taiheiyo sensoka de ‘Nihonjin’ ni bunruisareta Korian imin no shogu mondai o cushin ni” (The discourse of nationalism among Korean immigrants in wartime Hawaii distancing from ‘Japanese subject’ and ‘enemy alien’), Shicho (Tokyo), 64 (2008), 6–24. In Japanese.
Minamikawa, Fuminori, “Ritoru Tokyo no saiken? Saiteiju-ki niokeru komyuniti to jinshu kyocho-shugi” (Rebuilding little Tokyo? Community and interracialism in the resettlement era), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 135–53. In Japanese.
Mizuno, Takeya, “Zaibei Nihongo shimbun to nashonarizumu no sokoku: Nichibei Kaisen Chokugo niokeru Rosanzerusu no Nihongoshi ‘Rafu Shimpo’ o jirei toshite” (The Japanese-language press in the United States and conflictive nationalism: An analysis of the Los Angeles Rafu Shimpo after Pearl Harbor), Media-shi Kenkyo (Tokyo), 24 (2008), 61–92. In Japanese.
Murata, Yujiro, “Teki no teki wa tomo? Chu-Bei kankei 100nen” (The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Sino-American relations during the last century), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 18–27. In Japanese.
Nomura, Gail M., “The Politics of Land Tenure: Japanese on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1922–1933,” Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 54–68.
Parikh, Crystal, “Writing the Borderline Subject of War in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2009), 47–68.
Sugawara, Katsuya, “Kyoi to kyoi toshiteno Amerika: Nihon no Chishikijin/Bungakusha no senchu nikki kara” (Menacing and marvelous: ‘America’ in the diaries of Japanese intellectuals during World War II), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 8–17. In Japanese.
Bronstein, Daniel Aaron, “The Formation and Development of Chinese Communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia: From Sojourners to Settlers, 1880–1965” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3328265.
Isaki, Bianca, “A Decolonial Archive: The Historical Space of Asian Settler Politics in a Time of Hawaiian Nationhood” (University of Hawai‘i, 2008). Order No. DA3326443.
Jenks, Hillary, “‘Home Is Little Tokyo’: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325078.
Lee, Hyun Joo, “Staging ‘Fictive’ Ethnicity: Asian American Performance after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330144.
Oharazeki, Kazuhiro, “Japanese Prostitutes in the Pacific Northwest, 1887–1920” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3320155.
Oum, Young Rae, “Korean American Diaspora Subjectivity: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Self-Reflexivity” (Clark University, 2008). Order No. DA3334138.
Reddy, Sujani, “Women on the Move: A History of Indian Nurse Migration to the United States” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330167.
Shin, Mina, “Yellow Hollywood: Asian Martial Arts in U.S. Global Cinema” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325019.
Shoaib, Mahwash, “Arts of the Impossible: The Transnational Poetics of Etel Adnan, Agha Shahid Ali, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Kishwar Naheed” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3325397.
Chiu, Monica, ed., Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xviii, 252 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-794-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Collet, Christian, and Pei-te Lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xvi, 235 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-1-59213-860-9. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-59213-861-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Furuya, Hiroko, Amerika no Betonamujin: Sokoku tono kizano to betonamu seifu no seisaku tenkan (Vietnamese in the United States: The bond with the mother country and the change of policy by the Vietnamese government). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2009. 368 pp. ¥6,300, isbn 978-4-75032-927-7.) In Japanese.
Mori, Hitoshi, Ekkyo no minzoku-shi: Taminzoku shakai Hawai niokeru Japanizu no esunisiti (Transborder ethnography: Japanese ethnicity in multiethnic Hawaii). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2008. 294 pp. ¥5,250, isbn 978-4-75032-824-9.) In Japanese.
Takamura, Hiroko, Hokubei Mainoriti to Shiminken: Daiichiji-taisen noikeru Nikkeijin Josei, Senjumin (North American minorities and citizenship: Japanese Americans, women, and Native Americans during World War II). (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2009. 223 pp. ¥5,000, isbn 978-4-62305-247-9.) In Japanese.
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.


