Asian Pacific Islander Desi Community

Edited by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriquez

Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activists, Contemporary Asian American Activism presents lived experiences of the fight for transformative justice and offers lessons to ensure the longevity and sustainability of organizing.

By Jenny Tinghui Zhang

When she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself.

Edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Leora Kava

A wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play―all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation.

By Catherine Ceniza Choy

This work illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

By Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura

An innovative anthology that brings together 35 authors to explore the historical experience of AAPI women in the United States and beyond.

By Nadia Y. Kim

Using a global framework, this book investigateshow Asians from U.S.-dominated homelands learn and understand their place along U.S. color lines.