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  • Because of Asian American Studies

    This video was made by our Asian American Studies minor on "What is Asian American Studies and how it has impacted them?"

    July 6th, 2011
Associate Professor Teresa Swartz

New Book

Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization

By Kale Fajardo

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The Japan of Pure Invention book cover

award winner

The Japan of Pure
Invention: Gilbert &
Sullivan’s The Mikado was runner up for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstounding Research in Theatre History.

By Josephine Lee

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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street book cover

New book

Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform

By Lisa Sun-Hee Park

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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street book cover

New book

The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden

By Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David N. Pellow

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Angel Island Book Cover

Award winner

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung has won the Caughey Prize for the best book in Western History and the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award for Adult Non-Fiction

By Erika Lee

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