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By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security StateIn the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past year, President Joe Biden vowed to combat racism to make America live up to its reputed ideals

Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined

As National Poetry Month comes to an end and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month begins, UC Press is spotlighting Asian American poetry titles and Chinese American Voices, which includes primary documents and poems by Chinese Americans. Commonsby Myung Mi KimMyung Mi Kim's Commons

A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and

We are disturbed and horrified to see the escalating violence directed against Asian Americans, in the Bay Area and around the country. These incidents have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been encouraged by inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric. These are not isolated eve

Barbara Jean Wong leads the Mei Wah Drum Corps. Photo By Harry Quillen. Peter SooHoo Sr. Collection, Chinatown Remembered Project, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.William Gow was awarded the Western History Association's 2019 Vicki L. Ruiz Award, which recognizes the best a