We’re thrilled to announce that two of our esteemed faculty members in the Asian American Studies Program are releasing new books this month! See below for the book features and stay tuned for upcoming events and book talks—Congratulations, Dr. Kong Pha and Dr. Rachel Kuo!
We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities
Edited by Professor Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift & To Tso
A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other’s Liberation envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Bringing together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, this collection introduces readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism.
Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality
By Professor Kong Pheng Pha
In the wake of the US wars in Southeast Asia, the arrival of Hmong refugees reignited American anxieties about race and sexuality. Sensationalized media portrayals of child marriages, bride kidnappings, and polygamy framed Hmong communities as sexually deviant, reinforcing a racialized perception of their cultural practices. In Queering the Hmong Diaspora, Kong Pheng Pha dismantles these narratives, revealing how legal cases, media representations, and legislative efforts have constructed Hmong Americans as hyperheterosexual and ungovernable subjects.