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Reflectiona about writing about Vietnamese American literature
In this blog entry, author Isabelle Thuy Pelaud explains that her inspiration for writing this is all I choose to tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature came from her involvement...
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How to be South Asian on American TV
In this blog entry, anupama jain, author of How to Be South Asian in America reflects on how South Asians are represented in American television. In a course I am teaching this semester, students pair...
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The drama behind the drama of Asian American Plays for a New Generation
In this week’s entry, Rick Shiomi, co-editor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation provides the backstories for two plays in this exciting new collection. Every play that Mu Performing Arts was...
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Celebrating an “important contribution to the understanding of a neglected...
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy’s Searching For Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature recently won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award. This award, which is given by the...
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How Mu Performing Arts’ New Performance Program generated Asian American...
In this blog entry, Rick Shiomi, co-editor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation describes the New Performance Program and the process of selecting plays as being like a Survivor competition....
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Rick Shiomi recounts his tour for Asian American Plays for a New Generation
In the latest blog entry from Rick Shiomi, the editor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation chronicles his East Coast tour in support of the book. My East Coast Book Launch Tour for the new...
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Consuming Jeremy Lin: Centering Race in Professional Basketball
In this blog post, Kathleen Yep, author of Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground puts Lin-sanity in context. As a former basketball player and as an Asian American, I am...
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Challenging dominant stereotypes of young people of color
In this blog entry, Bindi Shah, author of Laotian Daughters, describes the impressions formed about an unlikely group of young Laotian girls who became advocates and leaders for social justice and...
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Remembering Tiananmen Square and its impact on both personal and political...
In this blog entry, Belinda Kong, reflects back on the 1989 massacre and how it inspired her new book, Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square. In many ways, I am an unlikely person to have written a...
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Considering the lives of transnational adoptees
This week in North Philly Notes, Kristi Brian, author of Reframing Transracial Adoption, reflects on the assumptions commonly articulated by non-adopted people that rightly infuriate many adult...
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Staging America’s First Contact with China
In this blog entry, John Haddad, author of America’s First Adventure in China, writes about The Empress of China, a play about an American voyage to China, that he saw in Hong Kong. In 1784, the...
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Two Temple University Press authors acknowledge their recent awards
Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of No More Invisible Man, received the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Princeton University. The award is...
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Talking about White Savior Films with Matthew Hughey
In this Q&A, Matthew Hughey, author of The White Savior Film, discusses this provocative genre of films in which heroic white characters uplift racial others. Q: How did you first encounter the...
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Announcing the publication of Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational...
Temple University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies Kalfou is the Haitian Kreyòl word for “crossroads.” It is a scholarly...
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Do you want an American nurse?
This week in North Philly Notes, an interview with Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines author Lisa Ruchti from Al-Jazeera America‘s July 3rd morning news program. [She appears at the 2:00 minute mark...
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Inclusion in the Creative Economy?
This week in North Philly Notes, Tarry Hum , author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, writes about the re-branding of Brooklyn. New York City Mayor de Blasio was elected with a mandate to...
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Celebrating Filipino Heritage Month
This week in North Philly Notes, we highlights eight Temple University Press titles that explore the identity, cultural diversity and community formation of Filipino Americans. Locating Filipino...
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Elect these books for your reading list
On election day, we highlight ten Temple University Press titles with a focus on elections and campaigns. Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy, by Dan Clawson, Alan...
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Celebrating University Press Week with a look at Temple University Press’...
It’s University Press Week! All week long university presses will be participating in the UP Week Blog Tour, where presses will be blogging each day about a different theme that relates to scholarly...
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Announcing the latest issue of Temple University Press’ journal, Kalfou
Kalfou is a scholarly journal focused on social movements, social institutions, and social relations. We seek to build links among intellectuals, artists, and activists in shared struggles for social...
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