Category Archives: asian american studies

March 11, 2013

Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game

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Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview ran on the March 9, 2013, broadcast of Only a … Continue reading →

February 25, 2013

The South Asian invasion of the Oscars

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Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance … Continue reading →

February 5, 2013

Q&A with The Asian American Experience acquiring editor Vijay Shah

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Since 2011 Vijay Shah has been the Acquiring Editor for the University of Illinois Press series The Asian American Experience. In Spring 2013 the first books that he acquired for the series will be published. Vijay took a few minutes to … Continue reading →

September 2, 2012

Indian Accents

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Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (February 2013), was interviewed for a recent Salon.com published piece titled “Hollywood goes South Asian.” A second-generation Indian … Continue reading →

August 23, 2012

Subject of UIP book refutes claim that Richard Aoki was FBI informant

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This week reports have emerged that Japanese-American civil rights activist Richard Aoki was actually an F.B.I. informant in the 1960s. Aoki’s confidant, saxophonist Fred Ho, refutes these claims. Ho, subject of our forthcoming book Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical … Continue reading →

August 16, 2012

New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color

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This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which has ceased publication. The new title explicitly includes Black, Latina, … Continue reading →

April 20, 2012

Q&A with Pacific Citizens editor Greg Robinson

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Larry and Guyo Tajiri became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central purveyors of news for and about Japanese Americans during World War II. In the new University of Illinois Press book Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese … Continue reading →