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  • Contributors

Brett Esaki received his doctorate in North American religions from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012 and holds a masters in African American religions from the University of South Carolina. He is an ethnographer and historian of Asian American and African American religions who examines mutual cultural influences through spirituality, art, and politics and his dissertation examines how Japanese Americans utilize silence in art as a method of religious preservation and political resistance.

Miliann Kang is associate professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is also affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies. Her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work (2010, University of California Press) won four awards from the American Sociological Association and the Sara Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. She is currently researching work-family issues for Asian American women, and the racial politics of mothering.

Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University, Nadia Y. Kim researches “race”/ethnicity/nation, gender/relationality, citizenship, immigration/ transnationalism, community politics, Asian American Studies, and Korean Studies. She authored the award-winning book Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to L.A. and is penning another on marginalized immigrant women of color, citizenship, and Environmental Justice.

Paul Lai studies sounds in Asian American cultural productions, American literature from outside the 48 contiguous states, critical librarianship, and dog parks.

Christopher Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (Stanford University Press, 2012). His current research focuses on Chinese diaspora literary thought during the Cold War. [End Page 351]

Anthony C. Ocampo is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. He earned his B.A. in the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA. He is currently developing a book manuscript on how colonialism shapes Filipino identity formation vis-à-vis Latinos and Asian Americans. He is also working on two ongoing projects on race and sexuality. The first is a comparative study of how sexuality and gender presentation shape the social lives of Latino and Filipino gay men in Los Angeles. The second (with Daniel Soodjinda at CSU-Stanislaus) is about the family and school experiences of LGBTQ Asian Americans in the Bay Area.

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is Associate Professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature (2011) and co-editor of Troubling Borders: Art and Literature of Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (2013).

Christine So is associate professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility (Temple University Press, 2007).

Caroline H. Yang is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in comparative race and ethnic studies, and her articles and reviews appear in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies and Journal of Asian American Studies.

James Zarsadiaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Northwestern University. He has written for The Atlantic Cities/National Journal Online, Journal of Social History, and Amerasia Journal. His dissertation examines the relationship between Asian immigration, urban planning, and myths of the frontier in post-WWII suburban Los Angeles. [End Page 352]

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