• Reframing Transracial Adoption
  Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship
  Kristi Brian
  

  "Kristi Brian bravely shines a spotlight on the racial inequities that undergird transnational adoptions but are typically whitewashed by assumptions of adoptive parents' benevolence and colorblindness. Reframing Transracial Adoption proposes a more culturally inclusive, child-centered paradigm focused on the voices of Korean adoptees rather than the personal preferences of white adopters, who sometimes select children on the basis of racialized criteria and then refuse to take their racial identities seriously. A critical contribution to an honest discussion of the role race plays in adoption and, indeed, in all family structures." —Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, and author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

• Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square
  The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
  Belinda Kong
  

  "Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square offers a new and exciting paradigm for Sinophone and diasporic literature. Kong demonstrates how the Tiananmen incident of 1989 has remained a powerful memory for key exiled writers, whose transnational mobility redefines the meaning of homeland and identity." —Yomi Braester, author of Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

  
  
• Picturing Model Citizens
  Civility in Asian American Visual Culture
  Thy Phu
  

  "Picturing Model Citizens is a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on Asian America and visual culture. Phu articulates a subtle and very useful trope of 'civility' by which to account for the chasm between the demonized coolie and idolized model minority, between labor and citizenship. This theorization and a well-grounded deployment of visual culture, enables sophisticated close readings of several important sets of photographs in which Asian American subjects are featured. Phu's extensive contextualization and detailed and sophisticated readings of the photographs are rewarding and generative. Picturing Model Citizens is likely to be widely used and cited." —Robert G. Lee, American Studies Department, Brown University, and author of Orientals (Temple)

• Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
  edited by Anne Enke
  

  "Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies is a very worthwhile book. Enke is knowledgeable about the field, and frames the issues nicely, explicitly addressing some of the core problems in feminism and women's studies. This anthology shrewdly demonstrates how transgender studies can do feminist work, and it goes a long way toward furthering that important critical/political task." —Susan Stryker, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, and author of Transgender History

• Look, a White!
  Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
  George Yancy, foreword by Naomi Zack
  

  "You read these dangerous, often breathtaking essays at your own risk. A fearless analysis that makes visible how white, racial consciousness is constructed daily and then perpetuated by narcissism and naivety, Look, a White! does more than deepen and refine our centuries-old discourse on racial being. It delivers, as the best philosophy must, a clarification of what it means to be human in the casements of our differently colored skins." —Charles Johnson, University of Washington

• The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens
  Race, Sex, and Cinema
  Gina Marchetti
  

  "The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens is most impressive for its broad discussion, crossing over to different film forms and genres, film history, social/political history, Orientalist discourse, and textual and visual analysis. Marchetti is fully informed and engaged in the current debates on race, ethnicity, nationalism, sex, and gender. She pays attention to a specific set of well-known globally circulating films in an interrelated way, which is especially interesting and illuminating. Marchetti's study is richly supported by an extraordinary amount of scholarship drawn from postcolonial studies. The insights she generates are unique and stimulating. The rigorous integration of these perspectives is long overdue both in Chinese cinema studies and Chinese studies." —Jenny Lau, Professor of Chinese Cinema at San Francisco State University, and editor of Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transcultural East

• Treacherous Subjects
  Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
  Lan P. Duong
  

  "Duong's Treacherous Subjects inaugurates sui generis the field of diasporic Vietnamese feminism. She instructs us what objects and subjects to look at and study, how they might be comprehended, and why such inquiry is so crucial for all of us. I can't think of another cultural studies project in a decade that has accomplished so much in one book. Duong's careful consideration of both filmic and literary genres demonstrates her explicatory erudition. Treacherous Subjects is a monumental work upon which a generation of future students and scholars will build. It will establish Duong as the principal intellectual figure of the field she will have helped to establish." —James Kyung-Jin Lee, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

George Yancy, author of Look, A White! asks, "Why We Need to Name Whiteness?"

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