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Learn more at americanyawp.com. “A thorough, compelling introduction to American history that can be used in virtually any course.” —Dan Cohen, Northeastern University Volume 1, To 1877: 9781503606715, 456 pages Volume 2, Since 1877: 9781503606883, 464 pages January 2019, Paper $24.95, each $19.96 sale 2 UNITED STATES Housing the City by the Bay Black Power and Palestine The Chinese and the Iron Road Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Transnational Countries of Color Building the Transcontinental Class Politics in San Francisco Michael R. Fischbach Railroad John Baranski The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed Edited by Gordon H. Chang and San Francisco has always had the question of Israel and Palestine Shelley Fisher Fishkin an affordable housing problem. onto the front pages of American The completion of the transcontinental Starting in the aftermath of the 1906 newspapers. Black Power activists railroad in May 1869 is usually told earthquake and ending with the saw Palestinians as a kindred as a story of national triumph and a dot-com boom, Housing the City by people of color, waging the same key moment for American “manifest the Bay considers the history of struggle for freedom and justice as destiny.” But while the transcontinental one proposed answer to the city’s themselves. Soon concerns over the has often been celebrated in national ongoing housing crisis: public Arab–Israeli conflict spread across memory, little attention has been paid housing. John Baranski follows the mainstream black politics and to the Chinese workers who made up ebbs and flows of San Francisco’s into the heart of the civil rights 90 percent of the workforce on the public housing program—the movement itself. Black Power and Western portion of the line. Progressive Era and New Deal Palestine uncovers why so many reforms that led to the creation of African Americans—notably Martin The railroad could not have been built the San Francisco Housing Authority Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and without Chinese labor, but the lives of in 1938, conflicts over urban renewal Muhammad Ali, among others— Chinese railroad workers themselves and desegregation, and the federal came to support the Palestinians or have remained largely invisible. This and local efforts to privatize felt the need to respond to those who landmark volume shines new light government housing at the turn of did. The book reveals how American on these workers and their enduring the twenty-first century. Baranski peoples of color create political importance, illuminating more fully advances the idea that public strategies, a sense of self, and a place than ever before how immigration housing remains a vital part of within U.S. and global communities. across the Pacific changed both China and the U.S., the dynamics of the the social and political landscape, “Original and timely, Black Power intimately connected to the racism the workers encountered, the and Palestine offers fascinating conditions under which they labored, struggle for economic rights in insight into a vital issue in the self- urban America. definition of the African American and their role in shaping both the community.” history of the railroad and the “A monumental contribution to the development of the American West. national discussion around housing —Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University and neighborhoods.” 528 pages, April 2019 9781503609242 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale —James Tracy, STANFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE co-founder of the San Francisco RACE AND ETHNICITY Community Land Trust 296 pages, 2018 9781503607385 Paper $25.95 $20.76 sale 312 pages, February 2019 9781503607613 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale ASIAN AMERICA 3 Nisei Naysayer Contraceptive Diplomacy Mandarin Brazil The Memoir of Militant Japanese Reproductive Politics and Race, Representation, and Memory American Journalist Jimmie Omura Imperial Ambitions in the Ana Paulina Lee United States and Japan James Matsumoto Omura In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee Edited by Arthur A. Hansen Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci explores the centrality of Chinese Among the fiercest opponents of This book turns to the history of exclusion to the Brazilian nation- the mass incarceration of Japanese the birth control movement in building project, tracing the role of Americans during World War II was the United States and Japan to cultural representation in producing James “Jimmie” Matsumoto Omura, interpret the struggle for hegemony racialized national categories. She a newspaper editor who fearlessly in the Pacific through the lens considers depictions of Chineseness called out leaders in the Nikkei of transnational feminism. Aiko in Brazilian popular music, literature, community for what he saw as their Takeuchi-Demirci follows the and visual culture, as well as archival complicity with the U.S. government’s relationship between two iconic documents and Brazilian and Qing unjust and unconstitutional policies. birth control activists, Margaret dynasty diplomatic correspondence. In 1944, Omura was indicted, Sanger in the United States and The book begins during the second arrested, jailed, and forced to stand Ishimoto Shizue in Japan, as well half of the nineteenth century, trial for unlawful conspiracy to as other intellectuals and policy- during the transitional period when counsel, aid, and abet violations of the makers, to make sense of the enslaved labor became unfree labor— military draft. He was among the first complex transnational exchanges an era when black slavery shifted to Nikkei to seek governmental redress occurring around contraception. “yellow labor” and racial anxieties and reparations for wartime violations By telling this story in a transnational surged. By considering why Chinese of civil liberties and human rights. context, Takeuchi-Demirci draws laborers were excluded from Brazilian Edited and with an introduction connections between birth control nation-building efforts while Japanese by Arthur A. Hansen, Omura’s activism and the history of eugenics, migrants were welcomed, Lee memoir provides a firsthand racism, and imperialism. interrogates how Chinese and Japanese imperial ambitions and Asian ethnic account of Japanese American “A fascinating study of transnational wartime resistance. feminism and international policy supremacy reinforced Brazil’s “whitening” project. “Offering new insight into Omura’s that yields an exciting new frontier controversial sedition trial, Nisei for transnational histories.” “A must-read for anyone studying Naysayer reveals the depth of Omura’s —Barbara Molony, Brazil, Latin America, Chinese commitment to constitutionalism and Santa Clara University diaspora, and Asians in the Americas.” freedom of the press.” 336 pages, 2018 —Lok Siu, —Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, 9781503604407 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles 256 pages, 2018 424 pages, 2018 9781503606012 Paper $25.95