Blogs about: Asian Pacific American Studies

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Asian Settler Colonialism

site administrator wrote 1 week ago: Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i, edite … more →

Tags: Asia, Hawaii, History, Japan

Hawaii at the Crossroads

site administrator wrote 1 week ago: Hawai‘i at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War, edited by Jon Thares Davi … more →

Tags: Asia, Hawaii, History, Japan, Pacific

Hakka Soul

site administrator wrote 1 week ago: Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, Meals, by Chin Woon Ping, chronicles the dreams, ambitions, and i … more →

Tags: Asia, autobiography & biography, China, Southeast Asia

Racial Performativity and World War II

site administrator wrote 1 month ago: In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II, Emily Roxwor … more →

Tags: History, Theater

Milton Murayama's Latest: Dying in a Strange Land

site administrator wrote 3 months ago: Milton Murayama’s long-awaited Dying in a Strange Land brings to a close the saga of the Oyama fa … more →

Tags: Hawaii, Literature, Pacific, Polynesia

Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition

site administrator wrote 3 months ago: At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to cel … more →

Tags: Pacific, Hawaii, Polynesia, Anthropology, american studies, Tourism

Reading the New Testament

site administrator wrote 8 months ago: What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?, by Tat-siong Benny Liew, is the first single-authored … more →

Tags: Religion

Reading Food in Asian American Literature

site administrator wrote 9 months ago: The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Literature

Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora

site administrator wrote 10 months ago: Approximately twelve hours’ difference lies between New York and Beijing: The West and the East ar … more →

Tags: Literature, art & visual culture

Toyoko Yamasaki Novel Now Available in English

site administrator wrote 10 months ago: Toyoko Yamasaki’s novel Two Homelands (Futatsu no sokoku) tells the powerful story of three brothe … more →

Tags: Asia, Hawaii, Japan, History

Reader Reaction to Combat Chaplain

Joel wrote 10 months ago: A reader sends the following reaction to Combat Chaplain by Israel Yost: Dear neighbors on the other … more →

Tags: Hawaii, autobiography & biography, Reader Reactions

Mark Panek reading from Gaijin Yokozuna

site administrator wrote 11 months ago: Mark Panek, author of Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan, will read from his biography of th … more →

Tags: Author Events, autobiography & biography, Hawaii, Mark Panek

John Clark at Brown Bag Biography

site administrator wrote 11 months ago: John Clark, author of many popular books on Hawai‘i’s beaches, will discuss his work on Guardia … more →

Tags: Hawaii, History, Author Events, John Clark

The WWII Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei

site administrator wrote 11 months ago: Yasutaro Soga’s Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of … more →

Tags: autobiography & biography, Hawaii, History, Japan

Jizo in Hawaii

site administrator wrote 1 year ago: Jizo, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities in Japan, is known primarily as the guardian of chil … more →

Tags: Pacific, Hawaii, Religion, History

First Among Nisei Book Launch

site administrator wrote 1 year ago: A book launch celebrating the publication of First Among Nisei: The Life and Writings of Masaji Maru … more →

Tags: Hawaii, Author Events, autobiography & biography

The Life and Writings of One of Hawaii’s Most Distinguished Nisei

site administrator wrote 1 year ago: Distributed for the Department of American Studies, University of Hawai‘i, and the Japanese Cultu … more →

Tags: autobiography & biography, Hawaii, History

Literacy in a Hmong-American Community

site administrator wrote 1 year ago: Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community, by John M. Duffy, documents the hi … more →

Tags: language, Anthropology


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