Books by Duncan Williams
“This is one of my favorite books ever, and it is pretty new. I don’t think we pay enough attention to the significance of religion in the construction of racial difference. That’s what Duncan Williams does in American Sutra. He highlights how Buddhist Japanese Americans had a pretty distinctive experience of being racialized and treated in a discriminatory way during the Second World War…We’re a country of religious freedom and religious pluralism, but we don’t have a great record of upholding our commitment to those principles in practice.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Duncan Williams were recommended
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Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home
by Madeline Hsu -
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American Sutra
by Duncan Williams -
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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
by Catherine Ceniza Choy -
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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
by Vivek Bald -
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The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
by Ellen Wu
The best books on Asian American History, recommended by Melissa Borja
The best books on Asian American History, recommended by Melissa Borja
Anti-Asian incidents in America are bringing overdue attention to the history of Asian Americans. University of Michigan Professor Melissa Borja recommends five books that illuminate the understudied history of Asian Americans, explain the connection to empire and shine a spotlight on this “coalitional identity.”
