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Book SynopsisJuxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs, Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This thematically arranged collection interrupts borders of categorization and gender, in what preface author Shirley Geok-Lin Lim describes as a leap over the barbed fences that have kept these women apart in these, our United States of America.The sixty-two contributors have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and showing their work is a bold act in itself. Their provocative and accessible creations tell unique stories, provide sharp contrasts to familiar stereotypesSoutheast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon ladies, prostitutes, or bar girlsand serve as entry points for broader discussions about questions of history, memory, and identity.Trade Review"The combination of image with texts complementing and conversing with each other provides a textured, layered engagement with the subject matter." * Art Radar Asia *"[A] collection that is at once scholarly yet accessible, purposely fragmented yet also deliberately interconnected, and always centering women in ways that surprise, challenge, and even provoke." * International Examiner *"[The] stories told dispel stereotypes and take on the complex challenges of colonialism, militarization, love, resistance, family, migration, and more. They reveal the intersectional and multilayered experiences of Southeast Asian women in the diaspora." * NBC News *"Inspiring . . . uses a collage of art forms to portray varied, and usually under-represented, female identities . . . [and] shows how marginalized women have become empowered through their fervent and thought-provoking artwork and writings." * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *Table of ContentsPreface by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Acknowledgments Introduction by Mariam B. Lam, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, and Kathy L. Nguyen Part One | Wombs and Wounds: Family Relations in the Diaspora Karen Llagas, Open Vi Ly, Terrain 15 and Terrain 17 Karen Llagas, Manananggal Vi Ly, Postpartum #5 Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Rubber Bands Ann Phong, Mending Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Mother Shell Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Flesh of My Flesh Linda Saphan, Togetherness Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, 30 Diep Tran, Visitation Julie Thi Underhill, Tra Cang Monastery Diep Tran, Schools Diep Tran, Tet 1976 Kao Lee Thao, Way of Life Anh-Thu Ngo, Profile of the Life Tree Julie Thi Underhill, Grandma Heang Ly, The Lotus Gift Amy Lee Sanford, Broken Tran Mong Tu, Letter after Thanksgiving Kou Vang, Widow Phayvanh Luekhamhan, April, 1993 Kao Lee Thao, Yukai Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Foreman v. Moorer Amy Lee Sanford, Suspended Phet Mahathongdy, Mother Love Anne Le, Spool Phuong M. Do, Self and Aunts Christilily Chiv, My Mother’s Hands Bleed Kou Vang, Letter from Laos May Lee-Yang, Correspondence from Laos Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life Part Two | Coming to Voice: Language, Writing, Literacy Marine Ky, Untitled VI (such as you are, so is the world) Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine lesson plans, poems, knots Marine Ky, Ted’s Garment Karen Llagas, From a Lighthouse Keeper Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 1 Barbara Jane Reyes, polyglot incantation Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 2 Linda Saphan, S-21 No Flying Away 3 Tran Tue Quan, Cuoc noi chien cua nhung identities Tran Tue Quan, The civil war of identities Phuong M. Do, Self and Uncles Souvankham Thammavongsa, The Sun in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away Reanne Estrada, Keep It Together #5 Souvankham Thammavongsa, This Is the Direction Part Three | Homes and Homelands Gina Osterloh, Impossible Delineation (from the series Blank Attempt) Karen Llagas, Archipelago Dust Gina Osterloh, Anonymous Front (from the series Copy Flat) Anne Le, In the Heart of the Country Gina Osterloh, Blind Rash (from the series Rash Room) Anne Le, The Fish Houses at Go Vap Tiffany Chung, Go Vap Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, National Highway 1 (Vietnam, December 1996) Hong-An Truong, Description #3 (Three Clocks) Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, The Corner of Nguyen Bỉnh Khiem and Tue Tĩnh (Ha Noi, 2005) Kou Vang, Forgotten Vo Hong Chyong-Dai, Across the ocean and beyond the mind Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Phayvanh Luekhamhan, I Think of This Every Time I Think of Mountains Azizah Ahmad, Homeless Gina Osterloh, Looking Back, I Accepted Your Invitation (from the series Somewhere Tropical) Anh Thang Dao, Song for a Lost Home Anh Thang Dao, The Pigeon Scandal Jenifer K. Wofford, Point of Departure (Nurse with Cap) Jenifer K. Wofford, Curtain Nurse I Part Four | Loving Sex/Sexing Love Angela Narciso Torres, Cardiac Debbie Nguyen, Dark Green Connie Pham, The Story of Pomegranate Told in Three Pieces Debbie Nguyen, Plum Lian Guow, First and Last Times Kao-Ly Yang, Three Pearls Facing Unfaithfulness Debbie Nguyen, Wood Chau Nguyen, Kisses of Heat Tran T. Kim-Trang, Still from Kore Mong-Lan, On the Tango and Buenos Aires Part Five | Militarized Lives Yer Yang, Virgin Land, Virgin Body Hong-An Truong, Still from Wheel in the Sky Aimee Phan, Excerpt from The Reeducation of Cherry Truong Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) Pimone Triplett, The Rumor of Necessity Hong-An Truong, Florida 1979 (Love You, Miss You a Lot) Gayle Romasanta, NutDriver Hong-An Truong, Florida 1978 (Goes to Heaven) Kathy L. Nguyen, Excerpt from The Inheritors Barbara Jane Reyes, Call It Talisman (If You Must) Part Six | Asians in America Lin + Lam, This Is Not Me Azizah Ahmad, A Letter to Asian America Melba L. Abela, God Bless America Azizah Ahmad, San Francisco Anne Le, Chinatown Julie Thi Underhill, Progress Report Linda Tran, The Flea Market Ann Phong, Box of Water 2 Melba L. Abela, San Francisco Ab(ove) Normal, 1967–2007 Marsha C. Galicia-Monroe, #6–Other Female Ann Phong, Boats Part Seven | Race, Roots, Religion Nalyne Lunati, Sea Ghost Barbara Jane Reyes, In the City, a New Congregation Finds Her Hong-An Truong, Description #4 (Three Figurines) Davorn Sisavath, The Value of a Catholic Education Nalyne Lunati, Kranok 1 Julie Thi Underhill, Corner Shore Nalyne Lunati, Vihara of the Mind Reanne Estrada, General Tri-Corn (6) Pimone Triplett, Motherland Eliza O. Barrios, Industry of Yoga series Grace Talusan, Boobie Cakes Eliza O. Barrios, Pending Part Eight | Travel Narratives and Narratives That Travel Linda Saphan, Amey on Bike Chi Vu, Suitcases Julie Thi Underhill, Fear of Ambivalence Mai Der Vang, The Sounds of Leaving Rachel Quý Collier, Salt Lake Reanne Estrada, Tenuous (tentatively titled) Pang Houa Moua Toy, Leaving Home Anida Yoeu Ali, Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (installation view) Mai Der Vang, From Within, a View Part Nine | Speech Acts: Labor, Activism, Resistance Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride (Flowers) Connie Pham, Quarterlife Crisis: A Quiet Activism Emily P. Lawsin, No Moments of Silence (In Memory of Joseph Ileto, Fong Lee, and Chon Buri Xiong) Linda Saphan, Incognito 31 Emily P. Lawsin, Where I Am From (Freewrite Remix) Melba L. Abela, International Worker Tiffany Chung, Here We Go Grace Kong, I Demand Respect Tiffany Chung, Bubble Shooter and Friends Grace Kong, Miss Boss Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Education Reform Karen Llagas, Imelda Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Give Me Your Best Performance Piece Lin + Lam, Stills from Unidentified Viet Nam No. 18 Leakhena Leng, Breathing Fire Performance Piece Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., Through the Looking Glass Epilogue About the Contributors and Editors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are many subjects of interest in this book...The best essays are those that highlight one particular person, delving under the surface to better understand their character, or one specific subject." * North American Post *"Japanese Americans and non-Japanese Americans alike will benefit tremendously, as I certainly did, from Greg Robinson's inspired sleuthing and artful renderings of his findings." * Nichi Bei Weekly *

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Book SynopsisFascinating portraits illuminate the diversity of Japanese American experiencesFrom a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as quiet Americans. Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei history, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, including mixed-race families, artistic pioneers, mass confinement, civil rights activism, and queer history. Drawn primarily from Robinson's popular writings in the San Francisco newspaper Nichi Bei Weekly and community website Discover Nikkei, The Unsung Great offers entertaining and compelling stories that challenge one-dimensional views of Japanese Americans. This collection breaks new ground by devoting attention to Nikkei beyond the West Coastincluding the vibrant communities of New York and Chicago, as well as the little-kTrade Review"There are many subjects of interest in this book...The best essays are those that highlight one particular person, delving under the surface to better understand their character, or one specific subject." * North American Post *"Japanese Americans and non-Japanese Americans alike will benefit tremendously, as I certainly did, from Greg Robinson's inspired sleuthing and artful renderings of his findings." * Nichi Bei Weekly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume is a welcome addition to environmental collections given the conspicuous dearth of quality environmental histories of Spain. . . . Hamilton presents an approachable, well-researched account of how the Albufera was the nexus of environmentalists’ efforts for conservation through "rewilding" both before and after the Franco dictatorship and his regime’s pointed effort to develop the tourism industry on what would become an extremely sensitive and biodiverse site of European environmental importance. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Understands the specificities of a space (La Albulfera de Valencia) that cannot be understood without human intervention in its more than six centuries of history; a space shaped by farmers, hunters, citizens of Valencia, politicians, and officials in a changing and often conflictive relationship, who display opposing interests and conflicting conceptions of conservation." * Environmental History *"[A] remarkable monograph, which demonstrates its author’s clear commitment to in-depth research in telling this fascinating and complex story." * Environment and History *"Cultivating Nature is a work written in a clear, engaging language, which is not only excellently suited for academic introductory courses on the agricultural and conservation history of Spain in the twentieth century, but also provides a good introduction for a readership outside the academic world that is generally interested in nature conservation." * Agricultural History *"Hamilton captures the inherent complexity of environmental issues very well." * Technology and Culture *"An excellent reference for environmental history in Spain, consolidating existing research and opening new lines of reflection toward the future." * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book makes for an interesting read in many ways—reflections on transcultural living and how that experience led to career changes and changes in worldview. However, there is one final way in which this book is interesting and useful. It is a collection of essays which are a form of “auto-ethnography.” These observations of cultural adjustment, and American understanding of Korea during the 1960s to the 1980s are an important source of information for future scholars examining American attitudes to East Asia at the end of the twentieth century." * European Journal of Korean Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book makes for an interesting read in many ways—reflections on transcultural living and how that experience led to career changes and changes in worldview. However, there is one final way in which this book is interesting and useful. It is a collection of essays which are a form of “auto-ethnography.” These observations of cultural adjustment, and American understanding of Korea during the 1960s to the 1980s are an important source of information for future scholars examining American attitudes to East Asia at the end of the twentieth century." * European Journal of Korean Studies *

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Book SynopsisA vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century communityTacoma's vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city's Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urTrade Review"Becoming Nisei provides more much-needed proof of the importance of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States. It places their past solidly in all of our memories—not just theirs—and gives us a window into who they are today." * Northwest Asian Weekly *"[A]n incisive look at the experiences of second-generation, or Nisei, Japanese people growing up in pre-WW II Tacoma." * Choice *"Based on forty-two interviews with former Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) Tacoma residents combined with rigorous archival research, Becoming Nisei offers a unique translocal and transnational approach to the often-overlooked interwar period in the twentieth-century Japanese American experience." * Pacific Historical Review *"[A] powerful community study that employs theories of memory and storytelling, and contributes spatial analysis and histories of childhood and education to the existing literature on Japanese american identity formation. By framing their narrative in the prewar period, the authors add significant dimension to histories of Japanese American incarceration and resettlement, particularly in the understudied region of the Pacific Northwest." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Becoming Nisei provides more much-needed proof of the importance of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States. It places their past solidly in all of our memories—not just theirs—and gives us a window into who they are today." * Northwest Asian Weekly *"[A]n incisive look at the experiences of second-generation, or Nisei, Japanese people growing up in pre-WW II Tacoma." * Choice *"Based on forty-two interviews with former Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) Tacoma residents combined with rigorous archival research, Becoming Nisei offers a unique translocal and transnational approach to the often-overlooked interwar period in the twentieth-century Japanese American experience." * Pacific Historical Review *"[A] powerful community study that employs theories of memory and storytelling, and contributes spatial analysis and histories of childhood and education to the existing literature on Japanese american identity formation. By framing their narrative in the prewar period, the authors add significant dimension to histories of Japanese American incarceration and resettlement, particularly in the understudied region of the Pacific Northwest." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisContemplates the role of Buddhist temples in the nurturing of immigrant communitiesSince the 1970s, tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants have settled in Louisiana, Florida, and other Gulf Coast states, rebuilding lives that were upended by the wars in Indochina. For many, their faith has been an essential source of community and hope. But how have their experiences as migrants influenced their religious practices and interpretations of Buddhist tenets? And how has organized religion shaped their understanding of what it means to be Vietnamese in the United States?This ethnographic study follows the monks and lay members of temples in the Gulf Coast region who practice Pure Land Buddhism, which is prevalent in East Asia but in the United States is less familiar than forms such as Zen. By treating the temple as a site to be made and remade, Vietnamese Americans have developed approaches that sometimes contradict fundamental Buddhist principles of nonattachment. This book considers Trade Review"Truitt’s ethnography provides a necessary gap in research regarding Vietnamese Buddhism in America," * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"[T]he book provides a comprehensive account of this hitherto untold story of Vietnamese Buddhism in the U.S." * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Truitt’s ethnography provides a necessary gap in research regarding Vietnamese Buddhism in America," * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"[T]he book provides a comprehensive account of this hitherto untold story of Vietnamese Buddhism in the U.S." * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wat does an excellent job of conveying these emotional and inspirational stories of activism... This book is an inspiring work that deserves to be read as it is an integral piece towards understanding the queer Asian American struggle for sexual liberation and health equity." * International Examiner *"Love Your Asian Body is a clarion call to understand one’s body not merely as a site for biotechnological intervention and individualized consumption but also as the source for envisioning social connectivities and political collectivities anew" * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American StudiesDefying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movementThe AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status. A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those eaTrade Review"Wat does an excellent job of conveying these emotional and inspirational stories of activism... This book is an inspiring work that deserves to be read as it is an integral piece towards understanding the queer Asian American struggle for sexual liberation and health equity." * International Examiner *"Love Your Asian Body is a clarion call to understand one’s body not merely as a site for biotechnological intervention and individualized consumption but also as the source for envisioning social connectivities and political collectivities anew" * H-Net *

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Book SynopsisHow histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously green regionIn Portland's harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals.In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these cTrade Review"A delightful new contribution to the growing debate on urban political ecology (UPE), especially as it is interested in environmental justice concerns, and at the same time a definitive portrait of a region that has long looked coherent to its residents for ecological, historical, geographical, cultural, and political reasons, but has now gained a clear profile beyond the region itself...Janos and McKendry’s book ultimately presents Cascadia as a—materially humid, watery, and rainy—source of powerful concepts and ideas that have already been formative and will be generative in UPE conversations in years to come." * The AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Urban Cascadia and the Green Imaginary Nik Janos and Corina McKendry Part 1. Urbanization Chapter 1. Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of Cascadia Jeffrey C. Sanders Chapter 2. The Making of Urban Cascadia: Extending Urbanization through Airplanes, Software, and Infrastructure Nik Janos Chapter 3. Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region Thaisa Way and Ken P. Yocom Chapter 4. Urbanization and Water Governance Dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon Alida Cantor and Alexander Reid Ross Part 2: Inequalities Chapter 5. Tales of Three Cities: Urban History, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Survivance in Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria Coll Thrush Chapter 6. A History of Puyallup Fishing Resistance Danica Miller Chapter 7. Our River, Our Future: More-Than-Local Grassroots Activism in the Portland Harbor Erin Goodling Chapter 8. The Progressive Promise of Reconcilliation in Vancouver's Northeast False Creek Giuseppe Tolfo Part 3. Governance Chapter 9. Against "Seattle-ization": Housing Justice and Activism in the Age of Amazon Jannifer L. Rice Chapter 10. Conflicting Sustainabilities and the Limits of Localized Green Governance Corina McKendry Chapter 11. Ecological Democracy and the Duwamish River Cleanup Mark Purcell Chapter 12. Drawing the Thin Green Line: Throwing a Wrench in Carbon Commodity Chains Corina McKendry and Nik Janos Conclusion Nik Janos and Corina McKendry List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A delightful new contribution to the growing debate on urban political ecology (UPE), especially as it is interested in environmental justice concerns, and at the same time a definitive portrait of a region that has long looked coherent to its residents for ecological, historical, geographical, cultural, and political reasons, but has now gained a clear profile beyond the region itself...Janos and McKendry’s book ultimately presents Cascadia as a—materially humid, watery, and rainy—source of powerful concepts and ideas that have already been formative and will be generative in UPE conversations in years to come." * The AAG Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Urban Cascadia and the Green Imaginary Nik Janos and Corina McKendry Part 1. Urbanization Chapter 1. Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of Cascadia Jeffrey C. Sanders Chapter 2. The Making of Urban Cascadia: Extending Urbanization through Airplanes, Software, and Infrastructure Nik Janos Chapter 3. Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region Thaisa Way and Ken P. Yocom Chapter 4. Urbanization and Water Governance Dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon Alida Cantor and Alexander Reid Ross Part 2: Inequalities Chapter 5. Tales of Three Cities: Urban History, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Survivance in Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria Coll Thrush Chapter 6. A History of Puyallup Fishing Resistance Danica Miller Chapter 7. Our River, Our Future: More-Than-Local Grassroots Activism in the Portland Harbor Erin Goodling Chapter 8. The Progressive Promise of Reconcilliation in Vancouver's Northeast False Creek Giuseppe Tolfo Part 3. Governance Chapter 9. Against "Seattle-ization": Housing Justice and Activism in the Age of Amazon Jannifer L. Rice Chapter 10. Conflicting Sustainabilities and the Limits of Localized Green Governance Corina McKendry Chapter 11. Ecological Democracy and the Duwamish River Cleanup Mark Purcell Chapter 12. Drawing the Thin Green Line: Throwing a Wrench in Carbon Commodity Chains Corina McKendry and Nik Janos Conclusion Nik Janos and Corina McKendry List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Dancing and Writing Together Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING 1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building Ananya Chatterjea 2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan Alessandra Lebea Williams 3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now Shannon Gibney 4. The Gone Bird Song Chitra Vairavan 5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre Hui Niu Wilcox PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING 6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. Alessandra Lebea Williams 7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchhā Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre Alessandra Lebea Williams 8. Emerald City Renée Copeland 9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES 10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre Surafel Wondimu Abebe 11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty Jigna Desai 12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa Hui Niu Wilcox 13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance David Mura 14. Forecast Mankwe Ndosi PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE 15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space Thomas F. DeFrantz 16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle Sherie C. M. Apungu 17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism Roderick A. Ferguson 18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise Toni Shapiro-Phim PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE 19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar 20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona Brenda Dixon-Gottschild 21. Fire from Dry Grass Nimo Hussein Farah 22. Affirmation Ananya Chatterjea List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Dancing and Writing Together Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING 1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building Ananya Chatterjea 2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan Alessandra Lebea Williams 3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now Shannon Gibney 4. The Gone Bird Song Chitra Vairavan 5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre Hui Niu Wilcox PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING 6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. Alessandra Lebea Williams 7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchhā Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre Alessandra Lebea Williams 8. Emerald City Renée Copeland 9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES 10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre Surafel Wondimu Abebe 11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty Jigna Desai 12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa Hui Niu Wilcox 13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance David Mura 14. Forecast Mankwe Ndosi PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE 15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space Thomas F. DeFrantz 16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle Sherie C. M. Apungu 17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism Roderick A. Ferguson 18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise Toni Shapiro-Phim PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE 19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar 20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona Brenda Dixon-Gottschild 21. Fire from Dry Grass Nimo Hussein Farah 22. Affirmation Ananya Chatterjea List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cherokee Earth Dwellers imparts a full, rich, and exciting vision of a living Cherokee cosmos that fosters balance, health, maturity, and awareness of the interconnection of all that is." * Foreword Reviews *"Found throughout the book are stories and illustrations that are of immense value in Cherokee culture and that are still told today." * Cherokee Phoenix *

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Book SynopsisThe creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built itFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor forceconsisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrantsmunicipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city. Tracing histories from unheralded sites such as labor camps, lumber towns, lodging houses, and so-called slums,Seattle from the Marginsshows how migrant laborers worked alongside each other, competed over jobs, and forged unexpected alliances within the marine and coastal spaces of the Puget Sound. By uncovering the historical Trade Review"One of the strengths of Asaka’s book is the way it writes “history from below,” digging up information about ordinary, struggling, marginalized people who don’t leave records or interest standard historians. The result is a book that is full of insights, characters, and new story lines...This brave book is well-written and bracing." * Post Alley *"Asaka deftly foregrounds the experiences of transient and surveilled workers to tell the story of Seattle’s intercultural commerce and communities. [Her] tour de force offers lessons and strategies for local mobilization today." * The Stranger *"Asaka's book provides a model for how to examine other cities in our collective work to address structural racism in the U.S." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *"[An] instant classic. . . . Stunningly original in the way she mines elusive sources, Asaka’s exhaustive research demonstrates the persistent thorniness of telling “histories from below” due to archival preferences for elite and middle-class stories." * Western Historical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho 1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger 2. The Brick / Cole Roskam 3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho 4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox 5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li 6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho 7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre 8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong 9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth 10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. Meyskens Afterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan Bach Chinese Character Glossary Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho 1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger 2. The Brick / Cole Roskam 3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho 4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox 5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li 6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho 7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre 8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong 9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth 10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. Meyskens Afterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan Bach Chinese Character Glossary Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Black Lives in Alaska provides a corrective to [the] flimsy narrative of the state's race relations." * Anchorage Daily News *"The book's scope, spanning from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, is as ambitious as it is comprehensive. Such preference for width over depth ends there, however, as the authors seek to leave no relevant stone unturned in their diligent presentation of Alaska's Black histories." * H-Net Reviews *"Hartman and Reamer brilliantly play off one another's strengths in history and journalism to craft a critical examination of a population that grew between the 1880s and early 1960s due to military service relocation and opportunities connected to oil production and defense-industry buildup during the Cold War." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Black Lives in Alaska provides a corrective to [the] flimsy narrative of the state's race relations." * Anchorage Daily News *"The book's scope, spanning from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, is as ambitious as it is comprehensive. Such preference for width over depth ends there, however, as the authors seek to leave no relevant stone unturned in their diligent presentation of Alaska's Black histories." * H-Net Reviews *"Hartman and Reamer brilliantly play off one another's strengths in history and journalism to craft a critical examination of a population that grew between the 1880s and early 1960s due to military service relocation and opportunities connected to oil production and defense-industry buildup during the Cold War." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This important book should be read by all wetlands conservationists." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inspiring and informative. . . . Born in a bear cave in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, raised in a traditional Indian-only speaking household by parents who were shamans, and having served as an Air Force wireless radio operator at a B-29 bomber base during the Second World War, Beavert has spent her adult life tirelessly retrieving, preserving, and sharing Sahaptin knowledge. . . . She began working in her Native language at the age of 12 after meeting linguist Melville Jacobs. Since then she has collaborated with some of the most accomplished linguists and anthropologists. . . . Her passion for and interest in the welfare of her younger readers reverberates throughout every page of The Gift of Knowledge, in which her stated purpose is to record the lifeways taught to her by her family." * Journal of the West *"A Colombia Plateau ethnographic study like no other, Beavert’s book shows how her own life story is inextricably connected to the plateau culture and language that she presents. . . . An anthropological text rich in personal biographical detail, context, and warm, vivid prose, this is a must-read for those interested in Indigenous Studies, anthropology, history, and the Columbia Plateau. . . . Adds very important contributions to the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, Pacific Northwest history, and cultural anthropology. . . . A shining example of intellectual sovereignty." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of Hunting, Fishing, and Food-Gathering Sites Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Culture That Made Me Who I Am Now / Inmí Tiinwít Wapíitat 2. My Story / Inmí Ttáwax̠t 3. Life Circles / Wyá’uyt Waḵ’íshwit 4. Experiences and Reflections / Pina’ititámat Waḵ’íshwit Conclusion / Wánaḵ’it Appendix: Guidance for Academic Researchers Ichishkíin–English Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisAn astounding new set of biographical portraits in Japanese American historyThrough stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg Robinson delves into a range of themes from race and interracial relationships to sexuality, faith, and national identity. In accessible short essays drawn primarily from his newspaper columns, Robinson examines the longstanding interactions between African Americans and Japanese Americans, the history of LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans, religion in Japanese American life, mixed-race performers and political figures, and more. This collection is sure to entertain and inform readers, bringing fresh perspectives and unfamiliar stories from Japanese American history and centering the lives of unheralded figures who left their mark on American life.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[E]ssential reading…Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future." * TaiwaneseAmerican.org *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[E]ssential reading…Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future." * TaiwaneseAmerican.org *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There can be no question.about the ability of the gifted, passionate, funny Mr. Chin; his characters are playable, complex and always convincing, and the words they speakm are always theirs and theirs alone." * The New Yorker *"The Year of the Dragon barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American—-the quiet, hardworking contented characcter who keeps to himself, rarely bothering the white community. It is not an ‘easy’ play. The language is frequently strong, and the bitterness, even when wrapped in some very funny comedy, is unrelenting..But as a portrait of an Asian American’s furious struggle for identity, the play is a searing statement, a powerful cry." * The New York Times *"If the main character represents the second generation, we would have no hope. He has no warmth. He lacks understanding. His actions are despicable." * Chinese Pacific Weekly *"One does not have to agree with Chin’s views to be profoundly affected by his arguments. They are well observed, richly detailed and sharply focused." * Pacific Citizen *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: A Short Survey on the Development Process of the Securities Market in Korea1. Early Stage of Formation of Securities Market under Japanese Influences (Before 1956)2. Early Stage of Development under Independently Organized Market System (1956-1968)3. Securities Markets in a Rapidly Growing Economy: Modernization Movement (1968-1976)4. Major Reforms of the 1976 Amendments in the Securities LawPart Two: Legal Analysis of Securities Laws and Problems Raised5. An Introductory Note: Coverage of Securities and Laws Applicable to Securities Transaction6. Regulation of the Distribution of Securities7. Regulation of Trading in Securities (one)8. Regulation of Trading in Securities (two)9. Toward an Efficiently Functioning Securities MarketAppendix: Recent DevelopmentsTable of CasesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a synthesis of the evolution of the people of southeastern Europe up to their national independence.Trade Review"To compress the complexities of Balkan history is no mean achievement. Students and history teachers will find this book invaluable.”—Slavic Review“A remarkable synthesis of the evolution of the peoples of southeastern Europe up to the achievement of their national independence." * Balkan Studies *Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1) The Ottoman Background 2) The Serbian Revolution 3) The Greek Revolution 4) The Autonomous Serbian State 5) The Greek Kingdom 6) Wallachia and Moldavia before 1853 7) The Ottoman Empire to 1876, The Reforms 8) The United Prinicpalities to 1876 9) The Bulgarian National Movement to 1876 10) The Crisis of the Seventies 11) Autonomous Bulgaria to 1896 12) The Balkan States: Internal Political Developments to 1914 13) The Expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Europe 14) The Establishment of Albania 15) Balkan Nationalities in the Habsburg Empire 16) Balkan Cultural Developments 17) The First World War 18) The Postwar Settlements 19) Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Speeches from Various Occasions -- A.P. Johnson, Sitka 1971 -- Unidentified Speaker, Sitka 1899 -- Unidentified Speaker, Sitka 1899 -- Johnny C. Jackson, Kake 1971 -- Jimmie George, Kake 1971 -- Thomas Young, Klukwan 1972 -- Tom Peters, Teslin 1972 -- Charlie Joseph, Sitka 1972 -- Willie Marks, Mt. Edgecumbe 1976 -- David Kadashan, Hoonah 1976 -- Emma Marks, Juneau 1982 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Haines 1985 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Haines 1985 -- Jennie Thlunaut, Klukwan 1985 -- Austin Hammond, Fairbanks 1988 Speeches for the Removal of Grief from the Memorial for Jim Marks, Hoona 1968 -- Jim Marks (Posthumous) -- Matthew Lawrence (1) -- David Kadashan -- William Johnson -- Jessie Dalton -- Austin Hammond -- Matthew Lawrence (2) "Because We Cherish You . . ": Sealaska Elders Speak to the Future (Selected Speeches from the First Sealaska Elders Conference, Sitka 1980) -- Charlie Joseph (1) -- George Davis (1) -- William Johnson -- Charlie Jim -- George Davis (2) -- George Jim -- George Davis (3) -- George Davis (4) -- George Davis (5) -- Charlie Joseph (2) Notes Glossary to the Speeches for the Removal of Grief Biographies References

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Book SynopsisLieutenant Emmons, United States Navy, was stationed in Alaska during the 1880s and 1890s. His duties brought him into close contact with the Tlingit Indians. In addition to an interest in native manufacturing, he recorded all aspects of the culture, together with the Tlingit terms.Trade Review"A comprehensive and definitive work that will be of interest to the general reader and indispensable to students and specialists in the field. It is the most important single resource now available on the Tlingit people." Richard L. Dauenhauer, Science "The book deserves praise in the first place for its documentary value and the thorough use of archival sources by the author."--Anthropos, 103.2008Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface: Editing The Tlingit Indians Transliteration of Tlingit Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction: George Thornton Emmons as Ethnographer A Biography by Jean Low: Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons, USN, 1852-1945 THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE Physical Features of Tlingit Territory Climate Flora and Fauna The Tlingit Name Origin of the Tlingit Physical Appearance Character Health and Disease Population SOCIAL ORGANIZATION Introduction Tlingit Tribes Phratry or Moiety Clan House and Household Kinship Crests Display of the Crest Painting of the Face Names Social Classes Chiefs Authority of Chiefs Slaves Law Trade VILLAGES, HOUSES, FORTS, AND OTHER WORKS Villages Houses Domestic Life Other Houses and Shelters Forts Petroglyphs Stone Cairns TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION Canoes Manufacture and Repair of Canoes Appurtenances of the Canoe Handling the Canoe Snowshoes Bags, Packs, Boxes and Sleds FISHING AND HUNTING Introduction Religious Aspects of the Food Quest Salmon Fishing Halibut Fishing Herring Fishing Eulachon Fishing Trout Fishing Other Fish and Marine Invertebrates Seal Hunting Porpoise, Sea Lion, and Whale Sea Otter Hunting Land Animal Hunting: Aboriginal Weapons Firearms Land Animal Hunting: Traps and Snares Bird Hunting Hunting Dogs FOOD AND ITS PREPARATION Introduction Salmon Halibut Herring and Eulachon Other Fish and Shellfish Land Animals Sea Mammals Birds Berries and Other Plant Foods Tobacco Drink Fire Making Domestic Utensils ARTS AND INDUSTRIES: MEN’S WORKS Division of Labor Work in Stone “Jade” Men’s Tools Work in Horn, Ivory, Shell, and Inlays Work in Copper Copper Neck Rings “Coppers” Work in Iron Work in Silver and Gold Work in Wood Measurements Totem Poles Painting Art ARTS AND INDUSTRIES: WOMEN’S WORK Skin Dressing Sinew and Intestines Basketry Spruce Root Hats Basketry Designs Spruce Root Mats Cedar Bark Weaving The Chilkat Blanket DRESS AND DECORATION Personal Cleanliness Clothing Hair Dressing Ear and Nose Ornaments Labrets Bracelets and Necklaces Face Painting Tattooing THE LIFE CYCLE Birth Infancy and Childhood Naming Girl’s Puberty Marriage Death Cremation Ceremonies after the Funeral Shaman’s Graves Various Other Forms of Disposal of the Dead Recent Graveyards Inheritance of Property Afterlife, Spirits, Souls, Reincarnation CEREMONIES Music and Dance Tlingit Ceremonialism in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries House-Building Ceremonies Dedication of the House and Raising a Totem Pole Dick Sa-tan’s Potlatch, 1891 A Major Potlatch Ceremony for the Children The Berry Potlatch Dance WAR AND PEACE Early Encounters with Europeans Interclan Warfare Encounters with Americans Aboriginal Warfare Aboriginal Arms and Armor Arms, Armor, and Tactics, Described by the Early Explorers Making Peace Early Accounts of Peace Ceremonies Peace Ceremonies in 1891 and 1877 ILLNESS AND MEDICINE Diagnosis of Illness Cures for External Ailments Medicines for internal Use Other “Medicines” Omens and Amulets SHAMANISM Spirits The Shaman Becoming a Shaman The Shaman’s Outfit The Shaman’s practice Stories about Shamans Death of a Shaman WITCHCRAFT The Origin of Witches Shaman and Witch Witches, Shamans, and the Authorities GAMES AND GAMBLING The Stick Game The Toggle (or Hand) Game The Dice Game Spinner Gambling in the Russian Era TIME, TIDES, AND WINDS Count Time: Seasons and Days “Moons” of the Year Tides Winds Tables Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a basic history comprising the political and socioeconomic background of Chinese and Japanese immigration and acculturation. He draws distinctions and points out similarities not only between Chinese and Japanese but between Asian and European immigration experiences, clarifying the integral role of Asians in American history. Daniels' research is impressive and his evidence is solid. In forthright prose, he suggests fresh assessments of the broad patterns of the Asian American experience, illuminating the recurring tensions within our modern multiracial society. His detailed supporting material is woven into a rich historical fabric which also gives personal voice to the tenacious individualTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Significance of the Asian American Experience The Coming of the Chinese The Anti-Chinese Movement Chinese America, 1880-1941 The Coming of the Japanese and the Anti-Japanese Movement Japanese America, 1920-1941 Asian Americans and World War II Asian Americans and the Cold War, 1945-1960 Epilogue: Since 1960 - The Era of the Model Minority Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIndian Words in the Text1. Introduction2. History3. Language4. Ecology5. Animal and Plant Resources6. Society7. Religion8. From the Treaties to TodayBibliographyAppendixesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data to explain the seeming paradox of why Japanese Americans have maintained high levels of ethnic community involvement while becoming structurally assimilated. Most traditional approaches to the study of ethnicity in the United States are based on the European immigrant experience and conclude that a zero-sum relationship exists between assimilation and retention of ethnicity: community solidarity weakens as structural assimilation grows stronger. Japanese Americans, however, like American Jews, do not fit this pattern.The basic thesis of this book is that the maintenance of ethnic community solidarity, the process of assimilation, and the reactions of an ethnic group to outside forces must be understood in light of the internal social organization of the ethnic group, which can be trac

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Paradoxes of Assimilation 2. Seductive Secularization 3. America, Freedom, and Assimilation 4. The Sexual Politics of Jewish Identity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 41 Alaskan Indian tales includes wood engravings by Alaska artist Dale DeArmond. It features the exploits of the roguish Crow and the intrepid "Man Who Traveled Among All the Animals and People" and range from serious myths to slyly humorous misadventures.Trade Review"This is a book that can be appreciated on many levels: as an important archive of Native American oral literature; as a set of stories that can be enjoyed by a wide range of readers; as a source of ethnographic insight into the Dena people of interior Alaska; and as a culturally specific manifestation of the universal human desire to explain the world and provide it with moral and narrative drama." - Pacific Northwest Quarterly "My favorite book of the year is a handsome volume called Tales from the Dena. ... [This] is a brilliant and important new book." - Anchorage Daily News "A thoroughly enjoyable and very valuable contribution to the literature on Atha-baskans, particularly their oral literature... The stories themselves can continue to delight young and old alike from almost any culture." - Arctic "This handsome, appealing volume...is at present the most easily accessible collection of stories from the Dena. It includes raven myths, a cycle about an apparent culture hero's adventures on the Yukon, and humorous animal tales." - Choice "Frederica de Laguna, one of the few anthropologists still alive who was trained by Franz Boas himself, is an icon among ethnographers who worked in northwestern North America... [Tales from the Dena] is a superbly edited and produced collection, and is a tribute to the well-rounded and intense training in ethnographic recording which de Laguna and others of her generation had received." - Anthropos

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