First multi-ethnic history of immigration into the American West

Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

FROM ALL POINTS:

America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952

By Elliott Robert Barkan

"This richly detailed history of immigrants in the 20th-century American West rewards the reader with close attention to individual voices of immigrants." ­Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People

By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. Covering nine decades of Western American history and the experiences of over twenty ethnic groups, this magisterial book tells their rich and complex story ­ of adaptation and isolation, maintaining and mixing traditions, and an ongoing ebb and flow of movement, assimilation, and replenishment.

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American West in the Twentieth Century
624 pages, 50 black & white photos
ISBN-978-0-253-

34851-7, cloth $39.95

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BOOK CFP: Asian Americans and the New South

Call for Papers

Asian Americans and the New South (University of Georgia Press)

Edited by
Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai

Description
The American South has a rich and vibrant tapestry of longstanding Asian American communities as well as exponentially growing recent ones. In addition to the historical presence of Asian Americans for the last two centuries (e.g., Chinese Americans in Mississippi and Filipino Americans in New Orleans), geographically diverse areas including Atlanta, the Research Triangle (Chapel Hill, Raleigh -Durham), New Orleans, Orlando and Nashville, have also become sites of recent immigration and internal migration. In an attempt to recognize and reckon with these historical and emerging minority communities, scholarly fields are beginning to map these unique histories, new communities, and the South's changing racial formations. This interdisciplinary anthology seeks to bring together essays that touch upon a wide-ranging number of topics that reflect the breadth and depth of the Asian American presence in the South. Historical perspectives on Asian Americans in the South. Contributions will be sought for an anthology exploring the historical, political, cultural, social, and/or economic issues associated with Asian Americans in the South. We would be interested in manuscripts that examine any of the following:

* Historical Perspectives on Asian Americans in the American South
* AA Religious Communities
* Past and emerging AA racial formations
* The South as regional and transnational crossroads
* Interethnic and panethnic relations among Asian Americans
* Multiracial and interracial relations
* Katrina and its consequences
* Education
* Social movements in the South
* Labor, class and social organizing
* Internal migration or transnationalism
* Public health, illness and/or the body
* Gender & Sexuality
* Policies, politics, and/or politicians in Asian American communities
* The impact of organizing around current immigration policies
* Past and emerging AA racial formations
* Second and third generation identities

Timetable:
Abstracts Due: 06.01.07
Final Drafts Due: 11.15.07
Manuscript Length: 6000-8000 words

For more information contact:
Khyati Y. Joshi, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University * khyati@fdu.edu
Jigna Desai, Associate Professor, Women's Studies & Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Minnesota * desai003@umn.edu

New Book

“Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities,” edited by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu. (link to the book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-About-Asian-Pacific-Americans/dp/0742553388).

New Book: L. Ling-chi Wang

UCLA Asian American Studies Press

Review copies & textbook discounts: Ming Tu at email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu.
Editorial: Russell C. Leong rleong@ucla.edu

"Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang: First Collection of Essays Published by UCLA Asian American Studies Center"
Book Signing Events in New York and San Francisco

UCLA's Amerasia Journal announces a special April 2007 issue "L. Ling-chi Wang: Quintessential Scholar-Activist" on the writings of Prof. Wang. During the past 40 years, Prof. Wang's impact as a Chinese American scholar, activist, institution builder at UC Berkeley, policy advocate, and public speaker has been unparalleled within the
field of Asian American Studies and in the nation. The special issue is edited by Prof. Don Nakanishi, the Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Amerasia's long-time editor, Prof. Russell Leong.

UCLA planned this issue both as a tribute to the recently retired U.C. Berkeley teacher and administrator, and also as a way to introduce Prof. Wang's writings to students, scholars, and local and global social activists in the U.S. and in Asia.

This international edition is the first collection of Prof. Wang's selected works in English, and contains a introduction in English and in Chinese written by Nakanishi and Leong. The individual essays are organized under the
following five sections: I. China, the U.S., and Chinese Americans; II. Model Minority, High-tech Coolies, and Foreign Spies? III. Paradoxes of Asian Americans in Higher Education; IV. Philosophy and Politics of Community Activism; V. Dual Domination and Asian Americans.

At Princeton Seminary, the University of Chicago, and U.C. Berkeley, L. Ling-chi Wang was a Near Eastern Studies major and studied Greek and Hebrew, among other languages. Rooted intellectually in thinkers as diverse as the Old Testament prophets, Soren Kierkegaard, W.E.B. DuBois, Saul Alinksy, Mao Tse-tung, Sun Tzu, Antonio Gramsci, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Prof. Wang encountered the Civil Rights, Black Power and Ethnic Studies Movements in the late 1960s.

As Prof. Wang states about his formal and informal education: "All the events at the University of Chicago, the black uprising, and what I was reading about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and the black protest movement had
been more or less abstract, but coming to San Francisco, everything became real. I realized the kind of analysis used to explain the black experience can be applied to the Chinese American experience."

From this point on, Wang became both an activist and a scholar. Since that time until today, Prof. Wang has fought for the rights and for the voices of Asian Americans in politics and education, including bilingual education,
admissions quotas, the 1996 presidential campaign finance scandal, Wen Ho Lee debacle, and U.S./China relations.

One of Prof. Wang's research interests is examining Chinese migration from the 19th century onwards. His own family is a good example of migration within the "Chinese diaspora," and includes many places where the Chinese settled, including Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, and the U.S.

Prof. Wang's father was born in Kobe, Japan, and his mother spent early childhood in the Philippines and Fujian. Wang himself was born on the island of Gulangyu, off the coast of Xiamen, China. He remembers his childhood during World War II and the harsh conditions under which his family and others survived the Japanese invasion
and occupation.

This 200-page issue includes selected essays from the 1960s through 2006, together with an in-depth
interview by UCSB Prof. Emeritus Sucheng Chan. Prof. Wang has also provided rare family photographs of the Wang family in China and in the U.S.

On Friday, May 18, 2007, the Chinese Historical Society of America will honor Prof. Wang at an evening wine and refreshments reception and program where he also will be available to sign his book . Location: Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 391-1188
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"L. Ling-chi Wang: Quintessential Scholar-Activist" 33:1 (2007) can be ordered for $15.00 per copy through our website: www.aasc.ucla.edu, or email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu. The issue is FREE with a new one-year subscription of $35.00 to Amerasia Journal (and you'll receive an entire year--three more issues.)

New Book

Begin Here: Reading Asian North American
Autobiographies of Childhood, by Rocio G. Davis.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.
ISBN: 978-0824830922. 256 pp.

This new work by widens the critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. In analyzing how Asian North American writers challenge the construction and performance of national experiences by rewriting the inherited scripts of childhood, Davis highlights the ways in which these writers deploy their childhood narratives to represent individual processes of self-identification, and to negotiate cultural and national affiliations. Davis examines the artistic projects of some fifty AsianNorth American writers, providing a comprehensiveoverview of autobiographies of childhood published over the last century, while also attending to new ways of writing, including graphic novels, diaries, and mixed genre works. By reading the texts as generic engagements with North American life writing, Davisreveals their performative potential within the wider project of creating a community of readers that will produce and preserve cultural memory.

Further information about the book is available from
its publisher, the University of Hawai'i Press, at www.uhpress.hawaii.edu