Volume 6, Fall 2019
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Documenting the Struggle for Asian American Studies at Duke: an Oral History Francia Fang, Lucy Dong, Leah Abrams, Michelle Qiou, Duke University '20 Indian-Americans' Relationship with Bharat: The Indosphere's move Westward via Diasporic Remittances Shivani Parikh, Cornell University '18 Asian American Autobiographies, Teaching Genre Expectations, and Single-Author Folk Narratives in Ed Young's Lon Po Po and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Marina Tinone, Yale University '20 A Brief Inquiry into ABGs: Orientalism, Identity, Performativity, and Appropriation Jenny Jingyi Tan, University of California, Los Angeles '19 |
Volume 5, Fall 2018
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"These Actions are Deeply Offensive to me Personally": Power Struggles between Students and the Administration during the 1995 Nassau Hall Sit-In Stephen Chao, Princeton University ’19 "A Love That Could Not Be Known": Naim v. Naim and Chinese Citizenship in the American South Post-Brown Rachel Kim, University of Chicago ’20 "Stop All the Garbage Going Up": Capital Flight, Immigration, and Suburban Development in 1980's Monterey Park, California Eric Wang, University of Chicago '20 Reimagining the Gaps: Counter-Memory Making and Filmic Documentation SeungHyun Chung, University of Pennsylvania '19 |
Volume 4, Fall 2017
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Dismantling Diasporic Archetypes with Bruce Lee Yvonne Ye, Yale University ’19 Pathologizing the Chinese: An Examination of Opium-Smoking and the American Medical Establishment's Vested Interest in the Exclusion Debate Hansen Shi, Harvard University ’18 Reconsidering the Model Minority Myth: Desire and Melancholia in Nina Revoyr's Southland Libby Kao, Mount Holyoke College ’17 "No Program, No Peace!": The Fight for Asian American Studies at Northwestern Miki Takeshita, The University of Chicago ’17 Leftist Ideology in Asian American Communities Luke Kertcher, University of Pennsylvania ’19 |
Volume 3, Fall 2016
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Oral Histories of Japanese Americans in World War II: Internment Camps, US Military Service, and the Peruvian Prisoner Exchange Mikka Kei MacDonald, Bates College ’16 The 1965 Anti-Chinese Riot in Jamaica: Anti-Colonial Frustration and Jamaican-Chineseness in the Postcolonial Nation Danielle Wilson, The University of Chicago ’15 Modeling the American Way: Japanese American Baseball, American Global Anti-Communism, and Transnational Racialization in Occupied Japan Benjamin Swartz Hartmann, University of Minnesota ’17 Nuclear Reasoning from Bikini Atoll to Daiichi Fukushima: Necropolitics and Citizen-Building G. Pe Benito, Barnard College ’15 |
Volume 2, Fall 2015
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The Mandarin: Acts of Cultural Mapping that Promoted and Marginalized Chinese Food in San Francisco, 1850-1991 Hong Deng Gao, Pomona College ’15 The Racialist Reformation: Transformations of Japanese-Canadians’ Depictions in Toronto Newspapers, 1945-1958 Sei Han, Yale University ’16 Unwanted Allies: Proposition 209 and Model Minority Discourse in 1990s California Politics Joy Yueyang Chen, Yale University ’15 Imagining Race Otherwise in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Olivia Lu, Barnard College ’15 |
Volume 1, Fall 2014
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Model Minority? Ethnic Identity and Perception of Asian American Stereotypes in Chinese American Children Elizabeth Cai, Princeton University ’13 Prufrockian Melancholia and the Orchestration of Desire in A Gesture Life Ami Yoon, Vanderbilt University ’16 “Asia for the Asiatics”: An (Unfinished) Biography of Lawrence Klindt Kentwell Mark Tseng Putterman, New York University ’14 The Globalization of K-Pop in the West through American Orientalism Tramanh Hoang, California State University, Fullerton, GS Rice Krispies, No Mustard Oil: Food and Diasporic Identity in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri Sarah Sarkar-El Baz, University of Exeter (UK) ’14 |