This week musician and activist Fred Ho will be celebrated at events featuring both signings of the new University of Illinois Press book Yellow Power Yellow Soul and also some […]
Category: asian american studies
The “Nikkei” path breaker with the St. Louis Cardinals
As the St. Louis Cardinals play their 2013 home opener today, Japanese or Japanese American players are no unusual site in Major League ballparks. But that wasn’t always the case. Samuel […]
Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game
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 […]
The South Asian invasion of the Oscars
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 […]
Q&A with The Asian American Experience acquiring editor Vijay Shah
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 […]
Indian Accents
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 […]
Subject of UIP book refutes claim that Richard Aoki was FBI informant
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 […]
New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color
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 […]
Q&A with Pacific Citizens editor Greg Robinson
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 […]