General

• At 40: Asian American Studies @ San Francisco State. San Francisco: Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University, 2009.
• Chan, Sucheng. In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
• Chang, Mitchell J. “Expansion and Its Discontents: The Formation of Asian American Studies Programs in the 1990s.” Journal of Asian American Studies 2, no. 2 (1999): 181-206.
• Chuh, Kandice, and Karen Shimakawa. “Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora.” In Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Edited by Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa, 1-21. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
• Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
• Ghymn, Esther M., ed. Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, and Marilyn C. Alquizola. “Asian American Studies: Reevaluating for the 1990s.” In The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s. Edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan, 351-64. Boston: South End Press, 1994.
• Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, and Marilyn Caballero Alquizola. “Whither the Asian American Subject?” Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies. Edited by Johnnella E. Butler, 169-202. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
• Hune, Shirley. “Opening the American: Mind and Body: The Role of Asian American Studies.” Change 21, no. 6 (1989): 56-60, 62-63.
• Hune, Shirley. “Asian American Studies and Asian Studies: Boundaries and Borderlands of Ethnic Studies and Area Studies.” In Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies. Edited by Johnnella E. Butler, 227-39. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
• Hune, Shirley, Hyung-chan Kim, Stephen S. Fugita, Amy Ling, eds. Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1991.
  • See opening essays by Shirley Hune,Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Gary Y. Okihiro, Sucheta Mazumdar.
• Lye, Colleen. “US Ethnic Studies and Third Worldism, 40 Years Later.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (2010): 188-93.
• Menon, Sridevi. “What is West Asia in Asian America? ‘Asia’ and the Politics of Space in Asian America.” Social Text 86; 24, no. 1 (2006): 55-79.
• Okihiro, Gary Y., Marilyn Alquizola, Dorothy Fujita Rony, K. Scott Wong, eds. Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995.
  • See essays in Part One by Elaine H. Kim, Keith Hiroshi Osajima, Dana Y. Takagi, Colleen Lye, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Edna Bonacich, Peter Swong, Patricia Nelson Limerick, John Kuo Wei Tchen, and Karen K. Kosasa.
• Okihiro, Gary Y., Shirley Hune, Arthur A. Hansen, and John Liu, eds. Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1988.
  • See opening essays by Russell Leong, Gary Y. Okihiro, Shirley Hune, Russell Endo and William Wei, Chalsa Loo, Raymond Lou, Michael Omi, Don Mar, Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Jeffrey K. D. Au.
• Okihiro, Gary Y, and Lee C. Lee. East of California: New Perspectives in Asian American Studies. Ithaca: Asian American Studies Program, Cornell University, 1992.
• Sumida, Stephen H. “East of California: Points of Origin in Asian American Studies.” Journal of Asian American Studies 1, no. 1 (1998): 83-100.
• Takeda, Okiyoshi. “One Year after the Sit-In: Asian American Students’ Identities and Their Support for Asian American Studies.” Journal of Asian American Studies 4, no. 2 (2001): 147-64.
• Umemoto, Karen. “‘On Strike!’ San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969: The Role of Asian American Students.” Amerasia Journal 15, no. 1 (1989): 3-41.
• Wei, William. The Asian American Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

Anthologies, overviews, reference books

• Anderson, Wanni W., and Robert G. Lee, eds. Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
• Chen, Edith Wen-Chu, and Grace J. Yoo, eds. Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2009.
• Chuh, Kandice, and Karen Shimakawa, eds. Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
• Danico, Mary Yu, and Franklin Ng. Asian American Issues. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• Gee, Emma, ed. Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America. Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, 1976.
• Goh, Robbie B. H., and Shawn Wong, eds. Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
• Han, Arar, and John Hsu, eds. Asian American X: An Intersection of 21^st Century Asian American Voices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
• Hu-DeHart, Evelyn, ed. Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
• Hune, Shirley, Hyung-chan Kim, Stephen S. Fugita, Amy Ling, eds. Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1991.
• Kim, Hyung-chan, et al, eds. Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Kitano, Harry H. L., and Roger Daniels. Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Lee, Jennifer, and Min Zhou, eds. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• Lee, Josephine, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa, eds. Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
• Ng, Franklin, ed. The Asian American Encyclopedia. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.
• Ng, Franklin, ed. Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture. New York: Routledge, 1998.
• Ng, Franklin, Judy Yung, Stephens S. Fugita, and Elaine H. Kim, eds. New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1994.
• Nomura, Gail M., Stephen H. Sumida, Russell C. Leong, eds. Frontiers of Asian American Studies: Writing, Research, and Commentary. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1989.
• Odo, Franklin, ed. The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
• Okihiro, Gary Y., Marilyn Alquizola, Dorothy Fujita Rony, K. Scott Wong, eds. Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995.
• Okihiro, Gary Y., Shirley Hune, Arthur A. Hansen, and John Liu, eds. Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1988.
• Ono, Kent A., ed. A Companion to Asian American Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
• Ono, Kent A., ed. Asian American Studies After Critical Mass. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
• Parreñas, Rhacel S., and Lok C. D. Siu, eds. Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Revilla, Linda A., Shirley Hune, and Gail M. Nomura, eds. Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1993.
• Tachiki, Amy, Eddie Wong, Franklin Odo, with Buck Wong, eds. Roots: An Asian American Reader. Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, 1971.
• Tuan, Mia. Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Asian Ethnic Experience Today. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
• Ty, Eleanor Rose, and Donald C. Goellnicht, eds. Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
• Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, and Min Song, eds. Asian American Studies: A Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
• Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, and Thomas C. Chen, eds. Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
• Zhou, Min, and James V. Gatewood, eds. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
• Zhou, Min, and Anthony C. Ocampo, eds. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. 3rd ed. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
• Yeoh, Brenda, Nicole Piper, Shen Hsiu Hua, and Beatriz Lorente, eds. Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels. Singapore: National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, 2005.

Special issues

Michael Omi and Dana Takagi, eds., “Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies.” Special issue, Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1 (1995)

• Leong, Russell. “Lived Theory (notes on the run).” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): v-x.
• Omi, Michael, and Dana Takagi. “Introduction: Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): xi-xv.
• Wong, Sau-Ling C. “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 1–28.
• Hune, Shirley. “Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 29–40.
• Lowe, Lisa. “On Contemporary Asian American Projects.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 41–52.
• Palumbo-Liu, David. “Theory and the Subject of Asian America Studies.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 53–66.
• Ono, Kent A. “Re/Signing ‘Asian American’: Rhetorical Problematics of Nation.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 67–78.
• Osajima, Keith. “Postmodern Possibilities: Theoretical and Political Directions for Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 79–88.
• Chang, Gordon H. “History and Postmodernism.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 89–94.
• Kondo, Dorinne. “Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 95–100.
• Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. “Back to the Future: Re-Framing Community-Based Research.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 103–18.
• Takagi, Paul, and Margot Gibney. “Theory and Praxis, Resistance and Hope.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 119–26.
• Gotanda, Neil. “Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory and Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 127–36.
• Wong, Paul, Meera Manvi, and Takeo Hirota Wong. “Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies?” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 137–48.
• Wang, L. Ling-chi. “The Structure of Dual Domination: Toward a Paradigm for the Study of the Chinese Disapora in the United States.” Amerasia Journal 21, no. 1–2 (1995): 149–70.

• Kim, Elaine H., and Lisa Lowe. “Guest Editor’s Introduction.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): v–xiv.
• Jun, Helen Heran. “Contingent Nationalisms: Renegotiating Borders in Korean and Korean American Women’s Oppositional Struggles.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 325–55.
• Kim, Min-Jung. “Moments of Danger in the (Dis)Continuous Relation of Korean Nationalism and Korean American Nationalism.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 357–89.
• deSouza, Allan. “Indian Aphorisms.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 391–401.
• Kang, Laura Hyun Yi. “Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 403–37.
• Noh, Eliza. “‘Amazing Grace, Come Sit on My Face,’ or Christian Ecumenical Representations of the Asian Sex Tour Industry.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 439–65.
• Gopinath, Gayatri. “Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 467–89.
• Chung, Y. David. “Artwork.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 491–500.
• Luibheid, Eithne. “The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: An ‘End’ to Exclusion?” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 501–22.
• Campomanes, Oscar V. “New Formations of Asian American Studies and the Question of U.S. Imperialism.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 523–50.
• Kiang, Peter Nien-chu. “Pedagogies of Life and Death: Transforming Immigrant/Refugee Students and Asian American Studies.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 551–77.
• Nguyen, Long. “Tales of Yellow Skin.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 579–88.
• Advani, Anuradha G. “The Development of a South Asian American Labor Organization: An Examination of Identity-Based Organizing.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 589–604.
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh. “Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Victimized Body.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 605–42.
• Bonus, Enrique. “Marking and Marketing ‘Difference’: Filipino Oriental Stores in Southern California.” positions: asia critique 5, no. 2 (1997): 643–69.

• Leong, Russell C. “Under the Skin: Of Educational Colonization and Conventional Thinking.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): iii–vi.
• Furumoto, Warren. “Reconnecting Education to Social Justice.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 1–8.
• Omatsu, Glenn K. “Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 9–34.
• Furumoto, Warren. “Reconnecting Education: Replacing the Pedagogy of Racism with a New Pedagogy of Humanity.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 35–66.
• Kawakami, Alice J. “Where I Live, There Are Rainbows: Cultural Identity and Sense of Place.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 67–80.
• Kawakami, Alice J. “Talking Story: A Virtual Interview with Christine Tanioka and JoAnn Wong-Kam.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 81–90.
• Osumi, Tony. “Teamwork and People Power: Liberatory Teaching in the Elementary Classroom.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 91–118.
• Furumoto, Rosa. “The Roots of Resistance: Cultivating Critical Parental Involvement.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 119–38.
• Meyer, Manulani Aluli. “Our Own Liberation: Reflections on Hawaiian Epistemology.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 139–64.
• Dirlik, Arif. “Locating Asian American Studies Today: Origins, Identities, and Crises.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 165–70.
• Okamura, Jonathan Y. “Asian American Studies in the Age of Transnationalism: Diaspora, Race, Community.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 171–94.
• Espiritu, Yen Le. “Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies: About Kin Disciplines.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 195–210.
• Palumbo-Liu, David. “Re-Imagining Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 211–20.
• Bayoumi, Moustafa. “Staying Put: Aboriginal Rights, the Question of Palestine, and Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 221–28.
• Hsu, Madeline Y. “Unwrapping Orientalist Constraints: Restoring Homosocial Normativity to Chinese American History.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 229–53.
• Kuo, Alex. “10,000 Dildoes.” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 254–64.

Web resources

• “PGI Micro-syllabus on Asian American Politics.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, n.d. [free access to articles until June 30, 2021]