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  • AfroAsian Encounters

    Culture, History, Politics

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of ... Read more

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  • Third World Studies

    Theorizing Liberation

    by Gary Y. Okihiro ...
    In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might constitute the formation of Third World studies. Proposed in 1968 at San Francisco State College by the Third World Liberation Front but replaced by faculty and administrators with ethnic studies, Third World studies was over before it began. As opposed to ethnic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Common Ground

    Reimagining American History

    by Gary Y. Okihiro ...
    In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Cane Fires

    The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • American History Unbound

    Asians and Pacific Islanders

    by Gary Y. Okihiro ...
    A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding of the United States. This text is accessible and filled with engaging stories and themes that draw ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Guide to Asian American History

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences and contributions of an incredibly diverse population of Americans. Arriving and settling in this nation ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Margins and Mainstreams

    Asians in American History and Culture

    by Gary Y. Okihiro, Moon-Ho Jung ...
    In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social history, Okihiro argues that the core values and ideals of the nation emanate today not from the so ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Boundless Sea

    Self and History

    by Gary Y. Okihiro ...
    The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro’s most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro’s previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Racial Transformations

    Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States

    by Gary Y. Okihiro, Natalia Molina, Victor Jew, Toni Robinson ...
    Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized Latinos and Asians while highlighting the productive ways that these communities challenge and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Practices of Care

    A Project of Togetherness during COVID-19 and Racial Violence

    Edited by Hellena Moon, Emmanuel Y. Lartey ...
    This anthology seeks to theorize a method of a radical, decolonial spiritual-care paradigm that can chart a new course in defining--or reframing--what is "spiritual," what is theological, and what is "care." Postcolonial Practices of Care presents voices of educators, chaplains, students, human-rights and disability activists, and other professionals to highlight the problems of disciplinary ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great American Mosaic

    An Exploration of Diversity in Primary Documents [4 volumes]

    Edited by Gary Y. Okihiro, Lionel C. Bascom, James E. Seelye Jr., Emily Moberg Robinson, Guadalupe Compeán ...
    Firsthand sources are brought together to illuminate the diversity of American history in a unique way—by sharing the perspectives of people of color who participated in landmark events.This invaluable, four-volume compilation is a comprehensive source of documents that give voice to those who comprise the American mosaic, illustrating the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities in the United ... Read more

    $404.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment

    Edited by Gary Y. Okihiro ...
    This book addresses the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II—a topic significant to all Americans, regardless of race or color.The internment of Japanese Americans was a violation of the Constitution and its guarantee of equal protection under the law—yet it was authorized by a presidential order, given substance by an act of Congress, and affirmed by the U.S. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD