Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, Practices

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference April 11-14, Capital Hilton Hotel 2012 Washington, D.C. Table of Contents

Conference at a Glance ...... 4 Association for Asian American Studies ...... 6 Purpose ...... 6 Activities ...... 7 Membership ...... 7 Officers and Regional Representatives ...... 8 Welcome from the President ...... 11 Conference Call for Papers ...... 12 Conference Committees...... 14 Program Committee ...... 14 Site Committee ...... 14 Film Committee...... 15 Community Awards Committee ...... 15 Book Award Committees ...... 15 Honors and Awards ...... 16 Plenary Sessions ...... 24 Section Meetings ...... 27 Receptions ...... 28 Film Screenings ...... 30 Workshops ...... 31 Tours ...... 32 Exhibitors ...... 35 2013 Call for Papers...... 36 Conference Schedule...... 38 Wednesday...... 38 Thursday ...... 40 Friday ...... 60 Saturday ...... 80 Map of Capital Hilton Hotel ...... 98 Sponsors and Donors ...... 99 Advertisements ...... 103 Program Designed by: Justin Gonzalez & Kelsey Rehkemper 2 33 Friday, April 13 Conference at a Glance 7:00am-5:00pm Registration Wednesday, April 11 8:30am-6:00pm Book Exhibits 1:00pm-5:00pm Registration 8:30am-10:00am Sessions F1 - F12 3:00pm-5:00pm National Archives and Records Administration 9:30am-12:30pm White House Tour 3:00pm-5:00pm Smithsonian Institution’s National 10:15am-11:45am Plenary Session F13 Museum of American History 12:00pm-1:00pm Section Meetings 5:30pm AAAS Board Meeting (by invitation only) 1:00pm-2:30pm 2012 and 2013 Chairs Meeting 1:15pm-2:45pm Sessions F14 - 25 1:15pm-4:30pm Session F26 Thursday, April 12 1:30pm-3:00pm Session F27 7:00am-5:00pm Registration 3:00pm-4:30pm Sessions F28 - F39 7:30am-6:00pm Book Exhibits 4:30pm-6:00pm Featured Readings & Book Signing 7:30am-8:15am Continental Breakfast 4:45pm-6:15pm Sessions F40 - F50 8:15am-8:30am Conference Welcome 8:30am-10:00am Plenary Session T1 11:30am-1:00pm AAAS Presidents Lunch Saturday, April 14 (By Invitation Only) 7:30am-8:30am Journal for Asian American Studies 10:15am-11:45am Sessions T2 - T10 Board Meeting 12:00pm-1:00pm Section Meetings 7:30am-8:30pm AAAS Mentorship Breakfast 1:15pm-2:45pm Sessions T11 - T21 8:00am-1:00pm Registration 3:00pm-5:00pm Library of Congress Tour 8:00am-3:00pm Book Exhibits 3:00pm-4:30pm Sessions T22 - T31 8:30am-10:00am Sessions S1 - S13 3:00pm-4:30pm Upcoming Publication of “Forbidden Citizens - Chinese Exclusion and the 10:15am-11:45am Sessions S14 - S26 U.S. Congress: A Legislative History” by 11:30am-1:00pm Asian American Studies Center Press Martin B. Gold Sponsored Session S27

4:30pm-6:00pm Coffee House Reading and Reception 12:00pm-1:00pm Section Meetings 4:45pm-6:15pm Sessions T32 - T42 1:00pm-2:30pm Plenary Session S28 6:15pm-7:15pm Welcome Reception 2:45pm-4:15pm Sessions S29 - S40 6:30pm-8:00pm Featured Film Presentation 4:30pm-5:30pm AAAS General Membership Meeting 6:00pm-7:30pm AAAS Awards Reception 44 55 Activities Association for The Association has sponsored national conferences since 1980 Asian American Studies in cities such as Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, The national Secretariat of the Association for Asian American Pullman, New York City, Santa Barbara, Honolulu, San Jose, Studies is located at the University of Minnesota 2114 Social Ithaca, Ann Arbor, Boston, Salt Lake City, Toronto, Washington, Sciences Building 267 19th Ave S Minnepolis, MN 55455. AAAS D.C., and Austin; publishes a newsletter and journal; advocates membership is handled by John Hopkins University Press. for students, faculty, and programs through advice and letters of Information regarding upcoming conferences may be obtained by support; advances Asian American Studies through its standing contacting the Secretariat. Information on membership and the committees, awards, advocacy, curriculum and library, publications, Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) may be obtained by professional ethics, and publicity; and serves as an information contacting John Hopkins University Press. resource on matters concerning . Purpose Membership The Association for Asian American Studies was formed in 1979 The Association is open to any individual or organization with an for the purposes of: interest in the Asian American experience. The membership is composed of researcher, teachers, and students in higher education. 1. advancing the highest professional standards of The membership also includes individuals in government and excellence in teaching and research in the field of Asian private sector, and professionals serving the needs of the ethnic American Studies; community, as well as members of the community.

2. to promote better understanding and closer ties between Membership in the Association for Asian American Studies is based and among various sub-components within Asian American on a calendar year, i.e., January 1st to December 31st. A member Studies: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawaiian, in good standing will receive the quarterly AAAS newsletter, Journal Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other for Asian American Studies, and reduced rates at the national groups; conference. The Directory of Asian American Studies Programs and Departments is available on the Association website: 3. sponsoring professional activities including conferences http://www.aaastudies.org. and symposia, special projects and events;

4. facilitating increased communication and scholarly exchange among teachers, researchers, and students in the field of Asian American Studies;

5. advocating and representing the interests and welfare of Asian American Studies and Asian Americans;

6. educating American society about the history and aspirations of Asian American ethnic minorities. 6 77 Officers & Regional Representatives N. ENGLAND/CENTRAL & S. EASTERN CANADA Term: 2010-12 Officers Regional Representatives Term: 2012-14 Linda Trinh Vo Catherine Fung PRESIDENT INTERIOR WEST/SOUTH Department of English and Media Humanities Gateway Building Studies Room 3307 Term: 2010-2012 Term: 2012-14 Josephine Lee Jennifer Ho Bentley University Mail Code: 6900 175 Forest Street Irvine, CA 92697 University of Minnesota Department of English & Comparative Waltham, MA 02452 email: [email protected] 207 Lind Hall Literature email: [email protected] 207 Church St. SE UNC Chapel Hill Minneapolis, MN Greenlaw Hall, CB#3520 GRADUATE STUDENT 55455-0134 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 N. CALIFORNIA/NEVADA Term: 2010-2012 email: [email protected] email: Email: [email protected] Term: 2012-14 Ronak Kapadia Grace Yoo PRESIDENT - ELECT MID-ATLANTIC/SOUTH Asian American Studies Graduate School of Arts and San Francisco State University Sciences Term: 2010-12 Term: 2010-12 Mary Yu Danico Allan Isaac 1600 Holloway Avenue, EP 103 Department of Social and Cultural San Francisco, CA 94132-4252 Analysis California State Polytechnic Rutgers University email: [email protected] 20 Cooper Square University, Pomona Department of English 7th Floor 3801 West Temple Blvd. 294 High Street New York, NY 10003 Pomona, CA 91768 Middletown, CT 06459 email: [email protected] email: mkydanico@ email: [email protected] PACIFIC NORTHWEST, csupomona.edu HAWAI‘I AND PACIFIC MIDWEST/MOUNTAIN ISLANDS, & WESTERN CANADA SECRETARY/TREASURER Term: 2012-14 Term: 2010-12 Term: 2007-14 Martin Manalansan John P. Rosa Anna Gonzalez Department of Anthropology University of Hawai‘i at Manoa University of Illinois, Urbana- University of Illinois, Urbana- Sakamaki Hall B415 Champaign Champaign Honolulu, HI 96822-2283 117 Swanlund Admin Bldg 109 Davenport Hall email: [email protected] 601 E. John St. 607 South Mathews Avenue Champaign, IL 61820 Urbana, IL 61801 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] 88 99 Welcome from the President

Our conference theme, “Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, Practices,” beautifully captures the dynamic and motivating aspects of this annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies. In this election year, and in the midst of so many public discussions that define what constitutes American life, it is especially fitting that we come together in the nation’s capitol. There is something about this place that asks us to put our ideas into action, and with this impressive array of plenary sessions, guest speakers, panels, roundtables, receptions, tours, and exhibit halls, this conference promises to be an active one indeed. We will have ample opportunity to visit some of the museums, monuments, and archives that give events of the past a renewed significance in the present. Of course, Washington, D.C. is also where history is being made daily, with Asian Americans central to this process. This conference prompts us to reflect upon those Asian American issues that inform so many aspects of contemporary political life, such as labor, immigration, racial justice, the environment, and foreign policy. A special welcome to those of you joining us for the first time. I think you’ll find that the stimulating discussions taking place in the sessions are matched by the conversations taking place in the lobbies, hallways, restaurants, and coffee shops. (I know that more than one great idea will be cooked up during a friendly stroll around the Mall this year.) I urge you to initiate and join those inspired conversations that have always defined our organization. It is so wonderful to have all of you here this year. Welcome to D.C.!

Best wishes,

Josephine Lee, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities as well as President, Association for Asian American Studies

10 1111 and artists? How do Asian Americans contend with the politics Conference Call for Papers of the everyday? The overarching emphasis for this meeting is the analysis of power in its various manifestations in Asian Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, American lives. Practices We look forward to hearing from all the disciplines covered in Asian American Studies and from individuals The theme, “Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, engaged in political work, broadly speaking, outside the Practices,” refers to the location of the meetings in Washington, academy, including politicians, artists and activists. We will D.C., the seat of politics and power in the United States. Asian hear from panels incorporating a range of institutional and Americans play an increasing role in U.S. and international extra-institutional locations, from students to senior scholars, politics as voters, politicians, and policy makers. At the same and from painters to policy makers. time, we wish to highlight the everyday and informal political practices of Asians in America as they use art, academics, In addition to panels, workshops, and roundtables, and activism to engage—and change—the world around this year we introduce an inaugural invitation for chaired them. The conference will address formal politics and informal WORKING PAPER sessions dedicated specifically to this politics in their multiple dimensions. year’s conference theme. A faculty expert on the theme will chair each session and deliver detailed feedback to each We welcome presentations that explore traditional author. This format will foster a deeper scholarly exchange conceptions of “politics” and political action on topics such as and engagement, and showcase the common intellectual electoral politics, Asian Americans in the government, activism threads that run through our diverse research projects. and social movements, and political interests and issues. Do Asian Americans constitute a political bloc (or have they We are excited to bring you this year’s Association for ever)? How can we interpret the increasing presence of Asian Asian American Studies conference from Washington, D.C.! American Republican politicians? Is “Asian America” a useful political category? Simultaneously, we hope the conference will expand our conception of the political to other areas including, but not limited to, the politics of: commemoration and memorialization; war and peace; dynamics within/across/ outside Asian American communities, communities of color, and multiracial Asians; immigration, refugee status, citizenship, and national belonging; the relationship between Pacific Island Studies and Asian American Studies; Asian settler colonialism; empire and race. What generative political work emerges in the conversation between academics, activists, 1212 1313 Conference Committees Site Committee Program Committee CO - CHAIRS Franklin Odo Patty Chu George Washington University CO - CHAIRS Lisa Mar Konrad Ng Gem Daus Sylvia Chong University of Maryland, College Smithsonian Institution Park University of Maryland University of Virginia Reme Grefalda Nitasha Sharma Crystal Parikh MEMBERS Library of Congress New York University Krista Aniel Gina Inocencio Smithsonian Asian Pacific Karthick Ramakrishnan Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program American Program MEMBERS University of California, Riverside Rita Cacas Noriko Sanefuki Ibrahim Aoude Dean Saranillio National Archives and Records National Museum of American University of Hawai’i, Manoa University of California, Riverside Administration History Shalini Shankar Iyko Day Book Award Committees Mt. Holyoke College Northwestern University Vicente Diaz Eric Tang FICTION/POETRY CULTURAL STUDIES University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Texas, Austin Brian Roley (Chair) Lisa Nakamura (Chair) Pensri Ho Antonio Tionsong Miami University University of Illinois Urbana- University of Hawai’i, Manoa Colorado College R. Zamora Linmark Champaign Heidi Kim Fatima Tobing-Rony Aimee Phan Celine Parrenas Shimizu University of California, Santa University of North Carolina, Chapel University of California, Irvine California College of the Arts Barbarba Hill Wesley Ueunten Grace Hong San Francisco State University HISTORY C.N. Le University of California, University of Massachusetts, Oliver Wang Linda Maram (Chair) Amherst California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Long Beach Long Beach Madeline Hsu SOCIAL SCIENCE University of Texas, Austin Nancy Abelmann (Chair) Award Committees Judy Wu University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign EARLY CAREER BEST GRADUATE EXCELLENCE IN Ohio State University AWARD PAPER AWARD MENTORING AWARD Monisha DasGupta LITERARY STUDIES University of Hawai‘i, Manoa Mary Danico (Chair) Mary Danico (Chair) Josephine Lee (Chair) Josephine Park (Chair) Moon-kie Jung Cal Poly Pomona Cal Poly Pomona University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania University of Illinois Urbana- Martin Manalansan Jennifer Ho Champaign Linda Vo Laura Kang University of California, University of Illinois University of North Carolina, Irvine Urbana-Champaign Chapel Hill University of California, Irvine Josephine Lee Catherine Fung Grace Yoo Elena Creef University of Minnesota Bentley University San Francisco State Wellesley College University 1414 1515 Honors & Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award Franklin Odo Ethnic Studies Department - University of Hawai‘i Gary Okihiro, Professor International and Public Affairs - Dr. Franklin Odo earned degrees from Harvard and Princeton. He taught Asian Studies at Occidental Dr. Gary Y. Okihiro of International and Public College and was involved in the movement to Affairs and is the founding director of the Center create Asian American Studies at UCLA and Long for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia Beach State before becoming Director of the University. He has authored eleven books, Ethnic Studies Department at the University of including Island World: A History of Hawai’i and Hawai`i. In the 1990s, he was a visiting professor the United States; Pineapple Culture: A History of at the University of Pennsylvania, , the Tropical and Temperate Zones; Storied Lives: Princeton, and Columbia. In 1997 he became the Japanese American Students and World War II; founding director of the Asian Pacific American Teaching Asian American History; Program at the Smithsonian Institution. He has also served as the Acting Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American Chief of the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. He co-edited the History and Culture; and Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in first breakthrough Asian American anthology Roots: An Asian American Hawaii, 1865-1945. He was born in `Aiea, Hawai`i and after receiving Reader and is the author of A Pictorial History of the Japanese in his Ph.D. in African history from UCLA, Professor Okihiro directed the Hawai‘i 1885-1924; No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i Comparative Ethnic Studies programs at Humboldt State University and During World War II; and the Columbia Documentary History of the Santa Clara University before moving to to develop Asian American Experience. His book on folk songs from Japanese its Asian American Studies Program. He is the recipient of the Lifetime immigrants on Hawaii’s sugar plantation will be published in 2012. Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and received Dr. Odo is a founding member of the AAAS and twice served as its an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryukyus. Okihiro was president. He has received awards from the Japanese American Citizens a crucial member of the AAAS in its formative years and serving as its League,Organization of Chinese Americans, and the Asian American president and as founding co-editor of the Journal of Asian American Justice Center for his accomplishments. Studies. Okihiro also founded and named the East of California Section. “In each of these positions, Dr. Odo laid a solid foundation for Asian American Studies curricula and research and established the institutional “Not content with reworking the same terrain, Dr. Okihiro has endeavored structure for departments which continue to flourish forty years later into over the years to complicate and expand historical and interdisciplinary the 21st Century” – excerpted from group nomination letter. analyses with fresh ideas and ways to deepen, widen, and ultimately reframe Asian American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies.” – excerpted from group nomination letter.

1616 1717 Excellence in Mentoring Award Leadership Award Yen Le Espiritu, Professor Honorable Norman Mineta Department of Ethnic Studies - University of California, San Diego In 1971, Norman Mineta was elected mayor of San Jose. Originally from Vietnam, Yen Le Espiritu is currently He was then elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at Later, he served as Secretary of Commerce under President the University of California, San Diego. She has written four Bill Clinton and Secretary of Transportation under President books: Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions George W. Bush. Throughout his distinguished service in the and Identities; Filipino American Lives; Asian American public sector, he has had an unwavering commitment to the Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love; and Home Bound: Asian American and other communities. Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, three of which have received national book awards. Her In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed HR 442, the Civil Liberties current research projects explore the socio-emotional lives of children of Act, which apologized on behalf of the nation and provided redress to immigrants from the Philippines and Vietnam, refugee communities in survivors of the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans San Diego, public and private “rememoration” of the Vietnam War, and during WWII. This momentous action could not have been accomplished Vietnamese transnational lives. without Mineta’s leadership.

Congressman Mineta co-founded the Congressional Asian Pacific Ameri- Early Career Award can Caucus and was its first chairman. In the aftermath of the tragic Anita Mannur, Assistant Professor events of 9/11, Secretary Mineta oversaw the installation of security English and Asian/Asian American Studies- Miami University, Oxford measures in our vast transportation system. He guided the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, an agency with more than 65,000 employees, and the largest mobilization of a new federal agency Anita Mannur is assistant professor of English and Asian/ Asian American since World War II. But even while at this enormous task, he took a cou- Studies at Miami University, Oxford. She is author of rageous stance against profiling of Arab Americans and Middle Eastern Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture Americans. George Bush credits Mineta for keeping racial profiling from (Temple UP, 2010). She has written widely on the topic of spiraling out of control, noting that Mineta and his entire community food in Asian American contexts and her work appears in had been victimized by WWII profiling. Not as well-known is his record Amerasia Journal, Massachusetts Review, MELUS, Journal of standing up for other persecuted groups, marginalized as “other” by of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies as well as the mainstream American society. For example, Mineta is arguably responsi- Taking Food Public East Main Street: Asian American collections (2011), ble for convincing the Japanese American Citizens League, at its confer- Popular Culture Asian American Studies After Critical Mass (2005) and ence in 1994 to support a resolution supporting Gay and Lesbian rights. (2004). She is currently working on a collection of essays about the environmental turn in Asian American literatures. Normam Mineta is currently Vice Chairman of Global Communications for Hill & Knowlton. He is married to Danealia (Deni) Mineta. Anita Affeldt Graduate Student Travel Fund Awardees

Ruth Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz Laura Kwak, University of Toronto 1818 1919 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Ma Vang, Graduate Student Department of Ethnic Studies - University of California, San Diego

Ma Vang is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego. She will complete her dissertation, “Archive of Secrets: Historical Absence, Hmong Americans, and the Politics of Memory,” in June 2012. Her research explores the historical absence of Laos in US imperialism, the “secret war,” and emphasizes how this history is not a secret for Hmong refugees/ Americans as they contend with the continued forgetting of their experiences in US public memory. It examines secrets as a historical and methodological dilemma and asks: how do you study a history that has been systematically kept secret? Furthermore, the thesis examines Hmong-produced knowledge that contend with how secrets continue to surface and shape the everyday dilemmas of Hmong lives in the U.S. Ma will revise and expand her dissertation as a UC President’s postdoctoral fellow at UC Riverside for 2012-2013. This essay about the refugee soldier will be published in a positions: east asia cultures critique special issue on Southeast Asian Americans in the diaspora, forthcoming Spring 2012.

Community Organization Awards White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders National Council of Asian Pacific Americans Organization of Pan Asian American Women

2020 2121 Book Awards (published in 2010) Book Awards (published in 2010)

Cultural Studies History J.B. Capino, Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Fantasies, Philippine Cinema. University of Minnesota Press. Exclusion Era, 1885-1945. Oxford University Press.

Honorable Mention: Honorable Mentions: Leslie Bow, Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly Him Mark Lai, Chinese American Transnational Politics. University of Illinois Press. in the Segregated South. New York University Press. Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to Poetry America. Oxford University Press. Tan Lin, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL PEOM Literary Studies PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE]. Steven Yao, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Wesleyan University Press. Exclusion to Postethnicity. Oxford University Press. Prose Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel. Coffee House Press.

Honorable Mention: Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country. Sarabande Books.

Social Science Eleana Kim, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Duke University Press.

Honorable Mention: Robyn M. Rodriguez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine Brokers Labor to the World. University of Minnesota Press.

22 23 22 23 Plenary Sessions Saturday, April 14 P3 S28 Plenary Thursday, April 12 Thirty Years after Vincent Chin: P1 T1 Plenary Violence and the Politicization of Opening Plenary: A View From the Asian America Room: Ballroom Obama Administration Room: Ballroom Chair/Discussant: Sylvia Chong, University of Virginia

Featuring: Chris Lu, Cabinet Secretary, White House Helen Zia, Independent Writer and Activist and Co-Chair, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Edward Chang, University of California, RIverside

Moderator: Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Institution Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Curtis Chin, Writer/Producer and Board President of Friday, April 13 Asian Pacific Americans for Progress P2 F13 Plenary Asian American Empire: Revisiting Pacific Island Studies and Pacific Islanders in Asian America/n Studies Room: Ballroon

Chair/Discussant: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University

Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles

Christina Lagdameo, The White House Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Margo Machida, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Sefa Aina, University of California, Los Angeles/The White House Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

24 25 24 25 Section Meetings

Thursday, April 12 Saturday, April 14 12:00pm-1:00pm 12:00pm-1:00pm

Room: Senate Room: Federal A Southeast Asian Queer

Room: Federal A Room: Ohio Filipino Multiracial

Room: Massachusetts Room: Massachusetts South Asian Religion

Room: South American A Room: New York Chinese American East of California Friday, April 13 12:00pm-1:00pm

Room: Pan American English

Room: Massachusetts Public Policy

Room: South American A Social Science

Room: California History

26 27 27 Receptions Friday, April 13 Thursday, April 12 10:15am-11:45am 8:15am-8:30am Smithsonian Presentation and Coffee Break (Pan American) Conference Welcome (Ballroom) 4:30pm-6:00pm Penguin Books Reading and Wine Reception (Congressional) 1:00pm-2:30pm Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education Reception and Book Signing (Congressional) Saturday, April 14

11:30am-1:00pm 4:30pm-6:00pm Amerasia Journal (University of California, Los Angeles) Coffee House Press Sponsored Reading and Reception Sponsored Reception and Reading (Congressional) Featuring Authors Bao Phi (Song I Sing) and Ed Bok Lee (Whorled) (Congressional) 6:00pm-7:30pm Awards Reception (Ballroom) 6:15pm-7:15pm *Badges or tickets are required for this reception. Welcome Reception (Foyer) Sponsors: American Studies, University of Virginia, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Sociology and Vice President’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Virginia Tech University

Cash Bar Provided

2828 2929 Film Screenings Workshops

Thursday, April 12 Friday, April 13 10:15am-11:45am, Ballroom Aoki (Dir. Mike Cheng and Ben Wang; author Diane Fujino 1:15pm-4:30pm, New York will be at screening) “The Doctor is In”: Graduate Student Drop-In Clinic This year we will inaugurate a “drop in clinic” for graduate 6:30pm-8:00pm, Senate students to have one-on-one consultations with a professor New Year Baby: Healing from the Cambodian Genocide who will respond to student questions about graduate through One Family’s Story of Survival (Dir. Socheata school including dissertation writing, job market questions, and questions about interviews. Faculty will also provide Poeuv—director will be at screening) “mock interviews” and can review your current materials by providing feedback on CVs, teaching philosophies, job Friday, April 13 letters, etc. Bring your materials and your questions!

8:30am-10:00am, Senate Among B-Boys (Dir. Christopher Woon—director will be at screening)

Saturday, April 14

8:30am-10:00am, Senate Better Places: The Hmong of Rhode Island a Generation Later (Dir. Peter O’Neill and Louisa Schein— co-director Schein will be at screening)

30 31 30 31 Tours Wednesday, April 11 Thursday, April 12 3:00pm-5:00pm 3:00pm-5:00pm National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Tour Library of Congress Tour Constitution Ave between 7th and 9th Streets NW. Space is limited and preference will be given to those who pre- register The National Archives is home to the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights – which, The ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COLLECTION was collectively, are known as the Charters of Freedom. These documents inaugurated in 2008. APA holdings consisting of monographs, sound are housed in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in recordings, films, prints and photographs are scattered in various Washington, DC located at Constitution Avenue (between 7th and divisions of the Library; however the primary holdings, manuscripts 9th Streets, NW). This tour will include a presentation of NARA and documentation on various communities in America are housed in records that include originals or facsimiles of documents, the Asian Division. The Betty Lee Sung Collection holds the largest photographs, maps, drawings, film or audio clips, allowing you to see collection of primary documentation involving Chinese on the the raw materials of our history. Rita Cacas, Archives Specialist, will East Coast. The only edition of the history of the F.F. Fraternity, a lead the tour and arrange for a variety of APA-related documents to social organization that started in Harvard’s Trinity College can be be on display, including emphasis on the Philippine Archives found in the APA Collection. Other notable collections include the Collections that contributed to her book, “Images in America: Filipinos 4,000 reconstructed files of Boat People refugees stranded in the in Washington, DC” written with Juanita Tamayo Lott. Also to be Philippines and in Hong Kong, the Carlos Bulosan Archive, the James included are documents related to Chinese Exclusion Acts. She Miho Papers and Conceptual Diaries, the Jade Snow Wong will also discuss best practices for use of NARA documents for Collection, The Roy Morales Collection, the Lia Chang Theater research purposes. Photo Portfolio, the APA Playwright Series, and a recent collection: the Asian Adoptee Archive. 3:00pm-5:00pm Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) Tour Friday, April 13 14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, DC 9:30am White House Tour The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC has more than 3 million artifacts in its collection. The Museum collection ranges from the original Star-Spangled Banner and The White House is the official residence of the President of the Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, to Dizzy Gillespie’s angled trumpet and United States, recognized worldwide as a symbol of the prestige Dorothy’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz.” Our collections of the presidency. Built between 1792 and 1800, the sprawling 132- form a fascinating mosaic of American life and comprise the room mansion has been used as a home by every President since single greatest collection of American History. Noriko Sanefuji will John Adams. The East Wing of the White House principally serves lead the presentation of highlights of the Asian Pacific American as offices for the First Lady and her staff. The First Family’s quarters, collection in the museum’s holdings. She will focus on current and located on the second and third floor of the historic White House, upcoming APA related projects. provide them with privacy and comfort away from the public spotlight. The West Wing is home to the President’s office and those of his top Meet: Information Desk -1st floor (near Constitution Avenue entrance) staff. 32 33 32 33 The tour provided to AAAS participants will be a self-guided tour of the East Wing. Due to security reasons, only those who have pre- registered for this and filled out their security forms can participate. 2012 Exhibitors The following presses and organizations will be exhibiting and selling Saturday, April 14 books and media material and providing information about their 11:15am-12:00pm organizations: Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter Exhibition: Image & Word Symposium Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University National Portrait Gallery 8th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC Coffee House Press Duke University Press Enjoy a guided tour of the groundbreaking exhibition, Portraiture Johns Hopkins University Press Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter, and attend a free Kaya Press symposium featuring original work that explores the exhibition by Maricopa Community Colleges David Henry Hwang, Garrett Hongo, Bao Phi, Marianne Villanueva, National Museum of American History Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Kazim Ali, and Anna Kazumi Stahl. Please meet at the information desk by the Eight and F Streets entrance. The New York University Press symposium Asian American Portraits Encounter Between Image Penguin Group and Word will follow the tour. For more information on the exhibition Polity books and symposium, visit: http://apa.si.edu/symposium Princeton University Press Oxford University Press Rutgers University Press Stanford University Press Steven Doi Books Temple University Press Third World Newsreel UCLA Asian American Studies Center University of Hawai‘i Press University of Illinois Press University of Minnesota Press

The exhibitors will be located in the Congressional Room.

34 35 34 35 Call For Papers We welcome papers and panels that address the topic of “empire” from the perspective of multiple as well as intersecting disciplines, research THE AFTERLIVES OF EMPIRE areas, and professional fields, including legal or policy analysis, medical/ health practice, education, geography, psychology, international studies, 2013 Association for Asian American Studies Conference and social work. April 17- 20, 2013, Seattle, Washington Submissions due by: October 15, 2012 We especially encourage panels incorporating a range of institutional and extra-institutional locations, from students to senior scholars, and from artists to policy makers. Co-authored presentations and undergraduate Claimed by multiple empires for hundreds of years and proclaimed a student panels or roundtables will also be seriously considered. gateway to Asia and the Pacific over the last century, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest afford a fitting backdrop to reflect collectively on the histories We will give priority to complete panel submissions (with a minimum of of empire and their enduring impact on Asian American, Pacific Islander, three papers and a maximum of four, with a moderator) that attend to the and other communities. We wish especially to explore the breadth and conference theme, but we will consider individual submissions as well. depth of historical and contemporary imperial formations and practices, to map what we might call imperial fields—the nodes and circuits of power, We accept electronic submissions. Paper and panel applicants must be capital, and desire generated by colonization, commerce, and migrations members of the Association for Asian American Studies and all presenters around the world. Particularly on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion must submit their conference registration form and fee to be included of Iraq in the so-called “war on terror,” we invite submissions that grapple in the printed conference program. Additional information, including with the meanings of empire, in the past and in the present. the membership form and submissions guidelines, is available at the Association for Asian American Studies Web site at The political urge and urgency to challenge the U.S. empire, most expressly http://www.aaastudies.org/forms in the movement against the Vietnam War, helped to define Asian American Studies in its founding. That urge, however, has perhaps faded over the We look forward to seeing you at the 2013 Association for Asian American past four decades, even as our current political moment demands that we Studies Conference in Seattle, Washington! comprehend and critique empire from and across multiple disciplines. How might we theorize or define empire in the twenty-first century? How have public policies, political and academic discourses, social practices, Committee Co-Chairs, health services, research, teaching, and cultural productions made empire Rick Bonus and Moon-Ho Jung visible and invisible in the United States and beyond?

We encourage submissions from a range of disciplines covered in Asian American Studies as well as from individuals and groups engaged in political and intellectual work outside the academy, including politicians, artists, and community activists.

36 37 36 37 3:00pm-5:00pm Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) Tour Wednesday Space is limited and preference will be given to those who pre- registered.

14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. Meet: Information Desk -1st floor (near Constitution Avenue April 11, 2012 entrance)

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American 1:00pm-5:00pm has more than 3 million artifacts in its collection. The Museum Registration collection ranges from the original Star-Spangled Banner and Foyer Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, to Dizzy Gillespie’s angled trumpet and Dorothy’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz.” Our 3:00pm-5:00pm collections form a fascinating mosaic of American life and comprise the single greatest collection of American History.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Tour Noriko Sanefuji will present highlights of the Asian Pacific Space is limited and preference will be given to those who pre- American collection in the museum’s holdings. She will a focus on registered. current and upcoming APA related projects.

Constitution Ave between 7th and 9th Streets NW. 5:30pm The National Archives is home to the original Declaration of AAAS Board Dinner and Meeting Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights – which, collectively, are known as the Charters of Freedom. These documents are housed in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC located at Constitution Avenue (between 7th and 9th Streets, NW). This tour offers a presentation of NARA records that include originals or facsimiles of documents, photographs, maps, drawings, film or audio clips, allowing you to see the raw materials of our history. Rita Cacas, Archives Specialist, will lead the tour and display a variety of APA-related documents with an emphasis on the Philippine Archives Collections that contributed to her book, “Images in America: Filipinos in Washington, DC” written with Juanita Tamayo Lott. Also available are documents related to the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Additionally, Carcas will discuss best practices for the research use of NARA documents.

3838 3939 Thursday April 12, 2012

40 41 7:00am-5:00pm becoming Acting Chief of Staff in the U.S. Senate office. After Election Day 2008, Lu was named the Executive Director of the Registration Obama-Biden Transition Project. His 15 years of government Foyer experience includes eight years as Deputy Chief Counsel of 7:30am-6:00pm the House Government Reform Committee (Democratic Staff). During the 2004 general election, Lu served as Special Advisor

Book Exhibits for Communications for the Kerry-Edwards presidential Hallway, Foyer, and Congressional campaign. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Lu started his career as a law clerk to Judge Robert E. 7:30am-8:15 am Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He Continental Breakfast then spent four years as a litigation associate at Sidley & Austin Sponsors: Johns Hopkins University Press and AAAS in Washington, D.C. Congressional Room 10:15am-11:45am 8:15am-8:30am Film Screening of Aoki (Ballroom) T2 Chair: Diane Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara Conference Welcome Ballroom Josephine Lee, AAAS President Putting Asian Americans on the Map: The Politics of Nitasha Sharma and Sylvia Chong T3 Redistricting in New York City (California) 2012 Program Committee Co-Chairs Chair: Joyce Moy, Asian American/Asian Research Institute Franklin Odo and Konrad Ng Carol Huang, Asian American/Asian Research 2012 Site Committee Co-Chairs Institute Glenn Magpantay, Asian American Legal Defense 8:30am-10:00am and Education Fund James Hong, Min Kwon Center for Community Action Opening Plenary: A View From the Obama Administration T1 Ballroom Imperial Relations: Japan, the Americas, and Racial Featuring: Chris Lu, Cabinet Secretary, White House T4 Belonging (Federal A) and Co-Chair, White House Initiative on Asian Americans Chair: Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and Pacific Islanders “Scenes of Instruction in Internment and Occupation” Moderator: Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Institution Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida “Racial Mimesis: Mexico’s Japan” As the Cabinet Secretary in the White House, Chris Lu is Jason Chang, University of Connecticut President Obama’s primary liaison to the Cabinet departments “Raced to Death: Myles Yutaka Fukunaga and the Anti- and agencies, helping to coordinate policy and communications Japanese Movement in Hawai‘i” strategy. He plays a critical role in managing the flow of Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa information between the White House and the federal “Citizenship Across Borders: Japanese American departments and in representing the interests of the Cabinet to Migrants in the Pacific, 1920-1945” the White House. Lu also serves as co-chair of the White Michael Jin, University of California, Santa Cruz House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu is one of President Obama’s longest-serving advisors, starting in 2005 as Legislative Director for then-Senator Obama, before 42 43 42 43 Asian American Youth Empowerment and Organizing Asian American College-Going Experiences” T5 (Massachusetts) Oiyan Poon, University of Massachusetts Boston/ Chair: Ami Patel, University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles “Hmong Student Organizations in California: Education Empowerment” Work, Power, and Resistance (South American A) Ger Xiong, University of California, Los Angeles T8 Chair: Angie Chung, University at Albany-State University of New “Asian American Youth and Hip Hop” York Daniel Woo, University of California, Los Angeles “Paj ntaub: Identity and Resistance” Geraldine Craig, Kansas State University Political and Poetic Justice for AAPIs in Higher Education “The Enclave Effect: Comparing Immigrant Employment in T6 (Ohio) Los Angeles Neighborhoods” Chair: Doris Ching, University of Hawai‘i Anna Joo Kim, Discussant: Doris Ching, University of Hawai‘i “Redefining Racial Paradigms: Asian Americans in The Politics of Asian American Literature (South American B) Higher Education” T9 Chair: Crystal Parikh, New York University Anna Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Urbana- “Literary Activism: Magic as Politics in the Novels of Karen Champaign Tei Yamashita and Marilyn Chin” “Asian American Identity Consciousness: A Polycultural Anne Jansen, Ohio State University Model” “The Politics of the Pen” Mamta Motwani Accapadi, Oregon State University Christiana Pinkston Betts, University of Connecticut “Perspectives on Representation and Inclusion, AAPI “The Politics of Literature and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘When Mr. Faculty, Staff, and Student Affairs Professionals” Prizada Came to Dine’” Robert Teranishi, New York University Rei Magosaki, Chapman University “Asian American Mental Health on Campus” Karen Huang, Korn/Ferry International Filipino/American Geographies: Historical Perspectives on T10 Transgressions and the Politics of Space and Time (Statler B) Expanding the Tiger Mother Discourse: Power, Poetics, and Chair: Allan Punzalan Isaac, Rutgers University T7 Practices of Parenting in Asian America (Senate) Discussant: Allan Punzalan Isaac, Rutgers University Chair: Elena Creef, Wellesley College “A New Nurse in a New South: An Oral History of Discussant: Erin Khue Ninh, University of California, Santa Migration, Community, and Resistance in the 1970s” Barbara Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, University of California, Los “Telling Tales out of Home: Asian American Families in the Angeles Media Floodlights” “Filipino-Americans versus the Philippines: The Politics of Erin Khue Ninh, University of California, Santa Barbara Memory and Activist Hauntings” “‘I’m Not a Tiger Mother – I’m a Housecat Mother’: Asian Precious Singson, University of California, Los Angeles American Women Negotiate Work, Family and Racial “‘Where the Wild Things Are’: Immigration, Country Living, Constructions of Mothering” Slow-Growth Movements, and Asian Suburbanization, Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1965-2000” “Quiet Strength: The Dialectics of Silence in Asian James Frank Zarsadiaz, Northwestern University American Daughtering Narratives” “Actress, Mistress, Immigrant: A Filipina’s Migrations from Vickie Nam, University of California, Santa Cruz Manila, to Washington D.C., to Hollywood, 1920s to “College Choice?: Immigrant Parental Influences and 1940s”

44 45 44 45 Genevieve Clutario, University of Illinois at Urbana- Greg Robinson, University of Quebec at Montreal Champaign Gene Oishi, Independent Scholar and Journalist Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, Brooklyn College and The 11:30am-1:00pm Graduate School, CUNY

AAAS Presidents’ Lunch T13 Political Activism Through the National Council of Asian North Gate Grill (Capital Hilton Hotel) Pacific Americans (EOC Sponsored Panel) (Federal B) Chair: Priya Murthy, South Asian Americans Leading Together; Navdeep Singh, Sikh American Legal 12:00pm-1:00pm Defense and Education Fund Southeast Asian Section (Senate) Gloria Chan, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Filipino Section (Federal A) Deepa Iyer, National Council of Asian Pacific Americans South Asian Section (Massachusetts) Mapping Asian American Archives Across National Spaces: Chinese American Section (South American A) T14 Language, Sexuality, History (Massachusetts) Chair: Edlie L. Wong, University of Maryland 1:00pm-2:30pm Discussant: Edlie L. Wong, University of Maryland “The Politics of Independence and the Poetics of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education Address: The Case for Maximo Kalaw” Reception and Book Signing (Congressional) Martin Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University “Labrish and Mooncakes: The Meeting of Vernaculars in 1:15pm-2:45pm the Poetics of Easton Lee” Tzarina Tavielle Prater, Bentley University The Politics of Perspective: Examining the “Lens” of “Canadian History on Trial: Sodomy, South Asian T11 Documentary Cinema (California) Identity, and the Spectacle of Homosexuality in Rex v. Chair: Larry Hashima, California State University, Long Beach Singh” Discussant: Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University Rick H. Lee, Rutgers University “Japanese Canadian Internment Films of the National Film Board of Canada: History, Personal Trauma and Race, Citizenship, and Belonging (Ohio) Memory” T15 Chair: Sylvia Chong, University of Virginia Kevin Lim, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa “Racial Melancholia in Suki Kim’s Novel The Interpreter” “An Orientalist Gaze: Critique of The Cove” Su-ching Huang, East Carolina University Yusuke Ikeda, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa “Drawn Apart: Challenging Narratives of Citizenship in “Beyond Local Color: Documenting the Post-Katrina New Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese” Orleans Vietnamese Community” Laura Wright, University of Connecticut Larry Hashima, California State University, Long “Mrs. Spring Fragrance and A Japanese Nightingale: Beach Passing, Performativity, and the Abjected Body in Edith New Perspectives on the Japanese American Incarceration Eaton and Winnifred Eaton” T12 (Federal A) Ying Xu, Chair: Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “The ‘Spy’ as a Question of Asian American Citizenship” Sunny Xiang, University of California Berkeley 46 47 46 47 Recent Work on Asian Adoption and Adoptees to the United Deconstructing Empire: Approaches to Filipino Studies T16 States: Kinship and History (Pan American) T19 Through the Politics of Difference (South American B) Chair: Hosu Kim, College of Staten Island Chair: Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California, Santa “The Queer Foundations of Korean Adoption” Barbara SooJin Pate, Minneapolis Community and Technical Discussant: Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California College “Heading West on Temple Street: Filipino American “‘Americans, your own flesh and blood’: Kinships of the Urban Space and Politics in Los Angeles” Korean War” Joseph Bernardo, University of Washington Joo Ok Kim, University of California, San Diego “Continuing a Legacy of Empire: Gendered “Peripheral Visions: Problematization of Kinship, Entrepreneurship in Care Work” Belonging, and the Asian Adoptee Body in Popular Jennifer Nazareno, University of California, San Culture” Francisco Rachel E. Jones, Binghamton University-State “Pacific Desires: Pacifying California and the Philippines University of New York through Medicine” Nic John Ramos, University of Southern California The Poetical is Political: A Creative Conversation on Asian T17 American Organizing (Senate) Chinese Advocacy Organizations: Language, Schools, and Chair: Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities T20 Health (Statler A) “Power to the Poem: Art and Activism” Chair: Yvonne Lau, DePaul University Michelle Myers, Community College of Philadelphia/ “Los Argenchinos: Cultural and Linguistic Assimilation of Poet Chinese in Argentina” “Learning from Community Poets: Lessons, Models, and Calvin Ho, University of California, Los Angeles Roles for Transforming Asian American Nonprofits into “Chinese American Political Mobilization and the Movement Organizations” Desegregation of San Francisco Schools, 1987-2005” Parag Khandhar, Asian American Literary Review Rand Quinn, University of California, Berkeley “Bodies in Momentum: Asian America Becoming Family” “Advocating for Chinese: From the Margins to the Stevie Larson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Center” “Refugeeography: Mapping the Aesthetics of Asian Yvonne Lau, DePaul University American Protest” “Networks, HIV/AIDS and Faith: HIV/AIDS Information Bao Phi, Loft Literary Center/Poet Diffusion among Chinese Immigrant Religious Organizations in New York City” Exposing Truths: Re-Centering Filipina/o American ManChui Leung, University of Washington T18 Subjectivities (South American A) Chair: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University The Role of Religion in Activism and Ethnic Identification “Kapwa Pedagogy: Reinventing Filipino American T21 (Statler B) Identity through Indigenizing Curriculum” Chair: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University Maharaj Desai, San Francisco State University “Bringing the Message Home: Christian Filipino Students “Passing It On: Mixed Filipina/o American PEP Teachers and Social Activism in the U.S. during the Interwar Facilitating Growth in Students and Self” Period” Teresa Hodges, San Francisco State University Stephanie Hinnershitz, University of Maryland, College Park “Religion and Political Incorporation: Varieties of Indian

48 49 48 49 American Activism” 3:00pm-4:30pm Prema Kurien, Syracuse University “Separatists and Accommodationists: The Problem of Choosing to Tell Vietnam and America (Ballroom) Ethnicity in the Korean and Asian American Church” T22 Chair: Michele Janette, Kansas State University K. Kale Yu, Nyack College “Mỹ Việt: Literary Anthology as Intervention in Politics of “’Bonded by Reverence to the Buddha’: Japanese Representation of Vietnam” Michele Janette, Kansas State University Americans and Transnational Buddhist Networks in the Monkey Bridge Age of Decolonization, 1947-1965” “Reading from ” Lan Cao, William and Mary Law School Michael Masatsugu, Towson University

Queer/Migrations: Nomadic Citizenship and the Cultural 3:00pm-5:00pm T23 Politics of (Un)belonging for Asian Bodies (Federal A) Chair: Amy Fujiwara Shen, University of California, Berkeley; Library Of Congress Tour Dai Kojima, the University of British Columbia Space is limited and preference will be given to those who pre- Discussant: Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at register Urbana-Champaign “Under the Radar: Negotiating Heteropatriarchal Asian Reading Room LJ 150 Surveillance in Post-9/11 Asian Women’s Educational Thomas Jefferson Building Migration” 101 Independence Ave., SE Amy Fujiwara Shen, University of California, Berkeley “Singing Out on the Edge of Utopia: Media, Affects and The ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COLLECTION Mobilities of Queer Migrants in the Asia-Pacific World” was inaugurated in 2008. APA holdings consisting of Dai Kojima, University of British Columbia monographs, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs “Queer Style: Migrant Forms From Tseng Kwong Chi to are scattered in various divisions of the Library; however Sui Jianguo” the primary holdings, manuscripts and documentation on various Sean Metzger, Duke University communities in America are housed in the Asian Division. “Queer Space-Time in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl” The Betty Lee Sung Collection holds the largest collection of Aimee Bahng, primary documentation involving Chinese on the East Coast. The only edition of the history of the F.F. Fraternity, a social Buddhism and the Political (Federal B) organization that started in Harvard’s Trinity College can be T24 Chair: David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College found in the APA Collection. Other notable collections include “Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White the 4,000 reconstructed files of Boat People refugees stranded Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation” in the Philippines and in Hong Kong, the Carlos Bulosan Archive, Joseph Cheah, St. Joseph College the James Miho Papers and Conceptual Diaries, the Jade Snow “Buddhist Film as Sutra” Wong Collection, The Roy Morales Collection, the Lia Chang Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University Theater Photo Portfolio, the APA Playwright Series, and a recent “Camp Dharma: Buddhism and Japanese American collection: the Asian Adoptee Archive. For more information, Internment” contact Remé Grefalda at [email protected] or go to Duncan Williams, University of Southern California http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/aapi/index.html.

50 51 50 51 Parades, Library, and Land: Boston’s Chinatown and Christine Victorino, University of California, Santa T25 Political Participation in a Century of Change Barbara (Massachusetts) Malaphone Phommasa, University of California, Chair: Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University Santa Barbara Discussant: Michael Liu, University of Massachusetts, “Engendering Asian American: On Asian American Boston Collegiate Males” “Performing Nationalism: Chinese American Political Simon Ho, Duke University Parades in Boston during the Age of Chinese Exclusion “Are Immigrant Children Isolated at School? Non- and the Cold War” participation in Extracurricular and Friendship Activities Wing-kai To, Bridgewater State University among Foreign-Born Youth” “Overdue, Returned, and Missing: The Changing Stories Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, University of of Boston’s Chinatown Library” Pennsylvania Aditi Mehta, The Boston Foundation “Chinatown Land Development, Planning, and Activism: Popular Culture and Critique: From K-Pop to Hip Hop, from 1990-2010” T28 Bollywood to Theater (Senate) Zhi Liang, Chinatown Gateway Coalition Chair: Eve Oishi, Claremont Graduate University Tunney Lee, Chinatown Gateway Coalition “A Far East Movement: The Cultural Politics of Asian/ Americans in Kpop” Politics of Knowledge, Circulations of Power: Critical Crystal Anderson, Elon University T26 Engagements with Gender and Sexuality in Asian and Asian- “Movements of Transpacific War Memory in Asian American Communities (Ohio) American Performance” Chair: Soniya Munshi, The Graduate Center at the City Elizabeth Son, Northeastern University University of New York “Reconstructing the Norm: Representations of African Discussant: Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawai‘i at Americans, Japanese, and U.S.-Japan Relations Manoa Through Japanese Manga and Animation” “Interrogating Modes of Culture: The Limits and Ethan Caldwell, Northwestern University Possibilities of Knowledge Production about Violence in “Strange Bedfellows: The Colonialism of Collaborations South Asian Communities” in Bollywood, Hip-Hop, and Dance Music” Soniya Munshi, The Graduate Center at the City Rekha Malhotra (DJ Rekha), Independent Scholar/ University of New York New York University “Epidemiological Frames: The Limits of a Universal Language of Sexuality” Complicated Solidarities: Native and Asian North American Navaneetha Mokkil Maruthur, St. Stephen’s College, T29 Collaboration and Activism since 1968 (South American B) Delhi University Chair: Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College Discussant: Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College Factors Impacting Asian American College Students “Ugly Alliances, Uneasy Solidarities: Affect and Asian T27 (Pan American) America in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Vision of Chair: Janelle Wong, University of Southern California Decolonization” “Optimal Classroom Performance: Three Steps to Quynh Nhu Le, University of California, Santa Reaching Students” Barbara Weiling Huang, Defense Language Institute “Finding Kelora: Disappearing Moon Café, Gendered “Asian American Student’s Civic Engagement and Racialization and Activism Against Erasure” Political Attitudes in California: A Quantitative Analysis” 52 53 52 53 Janey Lew, University of California, Berkeley War. “Partners in Crime: Solidarity in Marcie Rendon and Bao Forbidden Citizens is a detailed account of this troubling Phi’s Frozen River” legislative history. The book is based on research conducted Jeanne Sokolowski, Indiana University for the 1882 Project, an effort by several National Asian American organizations to secure resolutions of regret for Strengths and Challenges of Education as Social Change: Congress’ role in violating the civil rights of Chinese persons in T30 Faculty, Staff, and Student Perspectives (Statler A) this country. As a consequence of the 1882 Project’s efforts, Chair: Kathleen Yep, Pitzer College both the House and Senate resolutions were introduced in Samuel Pang, Pomona College May, 2011, and on October 6, 2011, the Senate passed its Pauline Wang, Pomona College resolution unanimously Anne Calef, Pomona College 4:30pm-6:00pm Transnational Practices of War and Empire: The Politics of T31 Race, Gender and Narration (Statler B) Coffee House Press Sponsored Reading and Reception Chair: Yaejoon Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Featuring Authors Bao Phi (Song I Sing), Ed Bok Lee Discussant: Jinah Kim, Northwestern University (Whorled) and Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) “Abandoning the Nation-State: Race, Gender and (Congressional) Empire in U.S. State Theory” Sponsored by Coffee House Press, University of the Yaejoon Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana- Pacific’s Ethnic Studies Department, and the University Champaign of Minnesota’s Asian American Studies Department. “The ‘Mexicans’ of Asia: Colonialisms and Identities of Discussion moderated by Michelle Myers from the Second Generation Filipino Americans” Community College of Philadelphia, a writer and activist Anthony C. Ocampo, California Polytechnic Pomona and a founding member of the spoken word group, Yellow Rage. The event will feature readings, “Crazy Ghost Woman: Haunting and the Female Body in Address Unknown (Kim Ki-duk, 2001)” discussion, Q&A, book sales, and a coffee reception. Kristen Sun, University of California, Berkeley “Imprisoned Masculinity: Japanese American Prisoners 4:45pm-6:15pm of War in Europe and the Pacific” Working Papers Session: Organizing and Polarizing Jeffrey T. Yamashita, University of California, Berkeley T32 Communities in Times of Crisis (Massachusetts) Chair: Mary Lui, Yale University 3:00pm-4:30pm “Resisting the Alien Land Laws” Daniel H. Inouye, Queens College, City University of Upcoming Publication of “Forbidden Citizens - Chinese New York Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History” by “The Asian American Conservative Figure and Race Martin B. Gold (South America A) Politics in Postracial Times” Laura Kwak, University of Toronto Between 1882 and 1904, Congress repeatedly passed legislation “Political Arts Activism and the Materiality of Literacy” to exclude persons of Chinese descent from immigrating to the Ruth Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz United States. At the same time, Congress barred from U.S. “South Asian America? Challenges to Identity and citizenship Chinese who had already immigrated legally to this Solidarity in the Post-September 11th Era” country. No person of Chinese background born outside of Rifat A. Salam, Borough of Manhattan Community the United States could become an American citizen until the College, City University of New York Chinese exclusion laws were repealed during the Second World 54 55 54 55 Program Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Enclave and Beyond “Participatory Media from Yellow Power to Today” (Ballroom) T33 Lori Kido Lopez, University of Southern California Chair: Sookhee Oh, University of Missouri,Kansas City “Can the Subaltern Tweet?: the Arab Spring and the New Discussant: Linda Trinh Vo, University of California, Irvine Orientalism” “Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Community Building: A Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois at Urbana- Focused Look at the Chinese and Korean Enclave Champaign Economies in Los Angeles” “YouTube Made the TV Star: KevJumba’s Star Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles Appearance on Amazing Race 17” “A Study on the Sociospatial Context of Ethnic Politics Vincent Pham, California State University, San Marcos and Entrepreneurial Growth in Koreatown and Monterey Kent Ono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Park” Sookhee Oh, University of Missouri, Kansas City Angie Chung, University at Albany, State University Serving Asian Americans: Law, Justice, and Policy of New York T36 (Federal B) “Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Banking Service: Chair: Neil Gotanda, Western State College of Law Canada and the US Compared” “‘Bake Sale’ Preferential Pricing and Academia Politics Wei Li, Arizona State University of Racialized Diversity and Justice Constructions” “I Didn’t Pick This Country: Immigrant Workers in Small Jim Okutsu, California State University, East Bay Businesses” “Needs Assessments of Refugees from Burma and Pawan Dhingra, Smithsonian Institute/Oberlin Bhutan” College Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University “New Directions in Asian American Jurisprudence” Acting Asian/s: Race and Performance (California) Neil Gotanda, Western State College of Law T34 Chair: Victor Mendoza, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Asian Americans on Affirmative Action” “The Politics of Conversion in Asian American Theater” Helen Ho, Duke University Eun Joo Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “Filling in the Blanks: Relational Casting and Unstoried Narrative Strategies for Representing Trauma (Ohio) Lives in Julia Cho’s The Piano Teacher” T37 Chair: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Ju Yon Kim, Harvard University “Narrative Stasis in Postwar Fiction: John Okada’s No- “Terms of Visibility: Foreignness and Belonging among No Boy and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony” Sansei at Japanese Village and Deer Park” Cynthia Wu, University at Buffalo, State University of Dana Y. Nakano, University of California, Irvine New York “Hallyuwood and the Failure of Self-Orientalism in Blood: “Narrating Trauma Through the Affective Unreliability in The Last Vampire and Ninja Assassin” Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life” Jane Park, Hye Su Park, Ohio State University “Surviving Trauma in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge and The Cultural Politics of Asian America in the Digital Age Ie thi diem thuy’s The Gangster We are All Looking For: T35 (Federal A) (Her)stories of Daughters of Vietnam-America” Chair: Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois at Urbana- Ai Binh Ho, Kenyon College Champaign “Here and Now: The Politics of Telling the Asian American Story” Konrad Ng, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American 56 57 56 57 Transnational Filipinos in Literature and National Imagined Discourses: Negotiating the Limits of Southeast T38 Landscapes (Pan American) T42 Asian Geographies and Cultural Cartographies (Statler B) Chair: Dean Saranillio, University of California, Riverside Chair: Emily Hue, New York University “Haunted ‘Nevertheless--’: Unstable Origins, Figures of “Tuning Out ‘Sublime Frequencies’: Empire and Exile, and the Politics of Remembering in Jessica Exposure in Burmese Diasporic Culture” Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle” Emily Hue, New York University Mark Pangilinan, University of California, Irvine “Forgetting the Unforgotten: Binh Danh’s In the Eclipse “The Story of Letters: Colonial Education and of Angkor” Subjecthood in Carlos Bulosan” Michelle Yee, The City University of New York Christopher Bautista Ramos, Duke University “Uncharted Stories: Filipino Representation in the 6:15pm-7:15pm Archaeological Record” Kathrina Aben, University of Maryland, College Park Cash Bar Reception hosted by University of Virginia and Virginia Tech (Foyer) Teaching Gran Torino (Senate) T39 Chair: Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego 6:30pm-8:00pm Discussant: Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego Film Screening: New Year Baby: Healing from the “Looking for my Authorship: Race, Sexuality and Media Cambodian Genocide through One Family’s Story of Production around Gran Torino” Survival (Senate) Bee Vang, Chair: Socheata Poeuv, Filmmaker/Yale University “Vexed Pedagogy: Text, Travesty, and Potential in Teaching Gran Torino” Louisa Schein, Rutgers University

Models of Communication and Community Organizing T40 Across Generational Lines (South American B) Chair: Carolyn Wong, Carleton College/University of Massachusetts, Boston Loan Dao, University, Massachusetts, Boston Timmy Lu, Asian Pacific Environmental Network Alex Tom, Chinese Progressive Association of S.F.

Empowering and Facilitating the Success of Underserved T41 AAPI Students (Statler A) Chair: Sarah Ha, Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Sarah Ha, Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Prema Chaudhari, Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Monica Thammarath, National Education Association

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60 61 7:00am-5:00pm California, Santa Cruz Darlene Mortel, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Registration Foyer Visibility and its Discontents: Present-Absences in the F4 Poetics of South Asian and Arab/America (Federal B) 8:30am-6:00pm Chair: Susette Min, University of California, Davis Book Exhibits “Detained Visibilities: The Tortured Body in Documentary Hallway, Foyer, and Congressional Representation” Anjali Nath, University of Southern California 8:30am-10:00am “Warm Data: Immigrant Detention and the Spectral Evidence of Things Unseen” Re-imagining Asia in Asian American Studies (Ballroom) F1 Ronak K. Kapadia, Colorado College Chair: Xiaojian Zhao, University of California, Santa “Transnational Palestinian Hip Hop: Youth, West Asia, Barbara and the Present/Absent” Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California Edward Park, Loyola Marymount University “In Search of Paradise: Exploring the Absence and David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University Presence in Allan deSouza’s Recent Works of Art” Susette Min, University of California, Davis Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University

Political Aesthetics: Rescripting the Political in Asian Representing Asian America in Film and Visual Media American Cultural Production (Massachusetts) F2 (California) F5 Chair: Amy Cynthia Tang, Wesleyan University Chair: Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside “Remapping the Politics of Form in Karen Tei “Who Killed Vincent Chin? and the Consolidation of Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange” ‘Asian American’ Community: Documentary Film and the Amy Cynthia Tang, Wesleyan University Power of Normative Frameworks” “The Queer Excesses of Martin Wong’s Nuyorico” Mignonette Chiu, University of Missouri Roy Peréz, Willamette University “Asian American Literary, Cinematic, and Digital “Among the Barbarians: Performing Inoperable Identity Assemblages” in Michi Barall’s Rescue Me” Eve Oishi, Claremont Graduate University Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Northwestern “Deregulating Diversity: Comcast, The FCC, and the University Shaping of Asian American Audiences in a Conglomerated Media Era” The New Politics of Asian American Community: Changing Patty Ahn, University of Southern California Dynamics of Regional, Transnational, and Networked “‘The right to be whoever the hell they want to be’: Better F6 Communities (New York) Luck Tomorrow and Asian American Cultural Politics of Chair: Chang Won Lee, University of Maryland Normal” “Transnationalism to Transnationalization: The Remaking Sonjia Hyon, Hunter College of the Korean Community in the Greater Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area” Perspectives on Critical Filipino Studies (Federal A) Chang Won Lee, University of Maryland F3 Chair: Robyn Rodriguez, University of California, Davis “Place, Community, and Identity: A Study of Japanese Joi Barrios, University of California, Berkeley Sherwin Mendoza, De Anza College/University of American Communities in the Historical and Political Context” 62 63 62 63 Ying Wang, University of Maryland Whiteness, Blackness and the Model Minority “Politics of Social Belonging: Race, Class, and Identity F10 (South American A) Negotiation among Children of Korean Immigrants” Chair: Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University Inseo Son, Duke University “The Power of Prejudice: Model Minority Myths and “Reclaiming Ethnic Space and Hybrid Identities in the Black Inequality” Networked Society: An Ethnographic Study” Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University Yujie Chen, University of Maryland “Ethnicity, Gender, Acculturation, and Intergenerational Relations as Predictors of Self-efficacy and Academic Public Fears in Pre-World War II Japanese America (Ohio) Success Among Asian Americans” F7 Chair: Dean Ryuta Adachi, Claremont Graduate University Hyang Helen Chung, University of Southern California Discussant: Duncan Williams, University of Southern California “Historically White Colleges and Universities: the Case of “Japanese Americans as Multiple Colonial Subjects and Virginia Tech” Performers of Multiple Colonial Projects” Leighton Vila, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Brett Esaki, University of California, Santa Barbara University “‘We can’t be like the Chinese’: The Christian-led David Brunsma, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Movement to ‘Civilize’ Japanese Immigrant Laborers” State University Dean Ryuta Adachi, Claremont Graduate University “Spittin’ on Racism: Asian Americans and Hip Hop” “Housewives, High Class Living, and the Japanese Eileen O’Brien, Saint Leo University American Home, 1920s” Ninochka “Nosh” McTaggart, University of California, Chrissy Lau, University of California, Santa Barbara Riverside

The Cultural Politics of Human Rights Representations in Fighting for Justice: (Un)silencing the Experiences of F8 Asian American Studies (Pan American) F11 Undocumented Asian American Youth (South American B) Chair: Lynn Mie Itagaki, Ohio State University Chair: Kevin Escudero, University of California, Berkeley “A Cinema of Insecurity: Racial Formations in Post-9/11 “Overshadowed, but Unafraid: Undocumented Asian/ Media” Pacific Islander Students and the Movement to Pass the Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota Federal DREAM Act” “Gendered Intermediacy: Captivity Narratives of Asian Kevin Escudero, University of California, Berkeley Americans Abroad” “Undocumented AAPI Students and the Post-Graduate Lynn Mie Itagaki, Ohio State University Cul-de-Sac” “Transnationalizing Noir Towards Anticolonial Cultural Chiara Paz, University of California, Los Angeles Politics in the Pacific World” “‘American Accent’: Comparing Counter-Hegemonic Jinah Kim, Northwestern University Narratives of Non-Citizen Asian (American) Youth” “Romancing the Self: The Melodramatic Poetics of Loan Thi Dao, University of Massachusetts, Boston Neoliberal Citizenship in Asian American ‘Labor Lit’” Pamela Thoma, Washington State University Cold War Afterlife of Asian America: Medical Tourism, F12 Vintage Fashion, and the (Graphic) Novel (Statler B) Film Screening: Among B-Boys (Senate) Chair: Terry Park, University of California, Davis F9 Chair: Christopher Woon, Film Director, University of California, Discussant: Diana Yoon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Los Angeles “Korean War(drobe): Vintage Clothing and the Threads of US-Korea Relations” Terry Park, University of California, Davis “Screening Beauty: Hallyu, Medical Tourism, and the 64 65 64 65 Question of Asian Feminism” Sharon Heijin Lee, University of Michigan 10:15am-11:45am “A Memory of Korea: Forms of War in Chang-Rae Lee’s Smithsonian Presentation and Coffee Break The Surrendered ” (Pan American) Yumi Lee, University of Pennsylvania “The Shortcomings of Wounded Masculinity: Or, the Guttered Politics of Transnationality” 12:00pm-1:00pm Douglas S. Ishii, University of Maryland, College Park English Section (Pan American)

9:30am-12:30pm Public Policy Section (Massachusetts)

White House Tour Social Science Section (South American A) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. History Section (California) The White House is the official residence of the President of the United States, recognized worldwide as a symbol of the 1:00pm-2:30pm prestige of the presidency. Built between 1792 and 1800, 2012 and 2013 Chairs Meeting the sprawling 132-room mansion has been used as a home by North Gate Restaurant (Capital Hilton Hotel) every President since John Adams. The East Wing of the White House principally serves as offices for the First Lady and her staff. The First Family’s quarters, located on the second and 1:00pm-2:30pm third floor of the historic White House, provide them with privacy APA NYU Coffee Break and comfort away from the public spotlight. The West Wing is (Hallway outside of Congressional) home to the President’s office and those of his top staff . 1:15pm-2:45pm The tour provided to AAAS participants will be a self-guided tour

of the East Wing. Beyond Anniversaries: Teaching September 11th as Past, F14 Present, and Future (Ballroom) Due to security reasons, only those who have pre-registered for Chair: Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston this and filled out their security forms can participate. Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Lisa Yun, State University of New York-Binghamton 10:15am-11:45am University Jaideep Singh, California State University, East Bay

Plenary 2 – Asian American Empire: Revisiting Pacific Island Elizabeth OuYang, Columbia University/ New York F13 Studies and Pacific Islanders in Asian America/n Studies University (Ballroom) Chair: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University Constructing Asian Adoptive Families: Markets, Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles F15 Birthmothers, and the New Asian American Family Christina Lagdameo, The White House Advisory (California) Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Chair: Elizabeth Raleigh, Hunter College Margo Machida, University of Connecticut, Storrs Discussant: Amanda Baden, Montclair St. University Sefa Aina, University of California, Los Angeles/The “Honorary White? The Market for Asian Adoptees and White House Advisory Commission on Asian the Black/non-Black Divide in the American Color Line” Americans and Pacific Islanders 66 67 66 67 Elizabeth Raleigh, Hunter College Transnational Asian Americans Finesse the Cold War: “Storied Lives of Korean Birthmothers” F19 Japanese Students, Korean Orphans, and Chinese Hosu Kim, College of Staten Island Language Schools, 1950-1980 (Ohio) “Negotiating the ‘Real’: Locating the Korean Adoptee in Chair: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University Heteronormative Kinship” Discussant: Kornel Chang, Rutgers University Kimberly McKee, Ohio State University “Japanese Students and the Politics of Cold War Civil Rights” Negotiating Tenure (Federal A) Shuji Otsuka, University of Maryland, College Park F16 Chair: Jim Lee, University of California, Irvine “‘Pied Piper Leads Orphans to the United States’: Elena Creef, Wellesley College Evangelical Protestants, the Cold War, and Intercountry Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College/Smithsonian Adoption from Korea” Institution APA Program Hannah Kim, University of Delaware Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “‘The Values We Teach, the Traditions We Pass On, and Gary Okihiro, Columbia University the Language We Speak Together’: Suburban Chinese Heritage and Language Schools in the Cold War Era” Against Historical Erasure: Oral History and the Politics of Jennifer Fang, University of Delaware F17 Representation in Asian American Studies (Federal B) Chair: Thúy Võ Đặng, University of California, Irvine Racial Environments and Scorched Earths: Narratives of Discussant: Laura Kina, DePaul University F20 Land in Asian American Literature (Pan American) Faye Caronan, University of Colorado, Denver Chair: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs Yuri Doolan, Ohio State University “Asian American Terroir: Gendered Narratives of Natalie Newton, University of California, Irvine Gardening in South Asian America” Quan Tran, Yale University Anita Mannur, Miami University “Acting Asian American, Eating Asian American: The Questions of State (Massachusetts) Politics of Race and Food in Don Lee’s Wrack and Ruin” F18 Chair: Eric Hung, Rider University Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Class Warfare: The Japanese American Internment as “Scorched Earths: Affiliation and Estrangement in Socio-economic Assistance Project” Maxine Hong Kinston’s Vietnams” Yoonmee Chang, George Mason University Marguerite B. Nguyen, Wesleyan University “Early APA advocacy in Federal Government” Theo Feng, Independent Scholar Transforming Filipina/o America: Re-Imagining Race, “Post-9/11 State Surveillance and the Problem of F21 History, Politics, and Hip Hop (Senate) Transparency: Story-telling in Laila Halaby’s Once In a Chair: Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Promised Land” Discussant: Theodore S. Gonzalves, University of Lai Ying Yu, Tufts University Maryland, Baltimore County “State of Culture? Economic Transformations in Tropic of “The Comparative Turn in the Social Sciences and the Orange” Politics of Comparative Scholarship” Mark Chiang, University of Illinois at Chicago Antonio T. Tiongson Jr., Colorado College “From Indios to Gods: Exploring Filipino ‘Civilization’ Discourse through Hip Hop” Mark Villegas, University of California, Irvine “Filipino Americans and Hip Hop: Resistance in Identity, Expression, and Organizing” 68 69 68 69 Stephen Bischoff, Washington State University “Exploding the (Im)proper Asian American Subject: The “Outlaws, Organizers, and Gangsta Warriors: Political Aesthetics of Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest” Constructing Political Home-Places in Filipino American Sharon Tran, University of California, Los Angeles Rap” “The Strangely Pleasurable Act of Killing the Future: Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Reexamining Temporality and Politics in Asian American Studies” Reconsidering Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Frances Tran, City University of New York, Graduate F22 : Conversations with Queer Compulsions Center Author Amy Sueyoshi (South American B) “Between Brown Queer Filipino Men: Translating Chair: Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal Necolonial Diasporic Masculine Subjectivities and “discrepant routes and itineraries” Unknowing Experience” Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at Jacob Lau, University of California, Los Angeles Urbana-Champaign “Death and the Japanese American Community: “Queering Asian American Studies” Disposability, Resurrection, and Archiving” Margaret Rhee, University of California, Berkeley Wendi Yamashita, University of California, Los “Queer Compulsions” Angeles Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University “The Blind Spots of Asian American History” Asian Americans Negotiating Health, Housing, and Shelley Lee, Oberlin College F25 Institutions (Statler B) “Historicizing Asian American History” Chair: Julie Park, University of Maryland, College Park Andrew Leong, University of California, Berkeley “Differential Racialization of Japanese Americans: Community Development in Los Angeles and Honolulu” New Imaginings in Asian American Scholarship: Asian Susan Nakaoka, University of California, Los Angeles F23 American Studies Present and its Futures (Statler A) “Patterns of Uninsured for Healthcare among Korean Chair: Sonjia Hyon, Hunter College Americans” Discussant: Jennifer Hayashida, Hunter College Ruth Chung, University of Southern California “Subversive Silence: The Terms of Conquest, Rebellion, “Majority-Asian Municipalities: Housing Discrimination and Identity Formation in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream and White Reception toward New Asian Arrivals” Jungle” Merlin Chowkwanyun, University of Pennsylvania Jenny Phu, Hunter College “The Construction of South Asian American and Arab 1:15pm-4:30pm American Queer Muslim Sexualities: On the Psyche, Body, Diaspora and the Nation” “The Doctor is In”: Graduate Student Drop-In Clinic Lakshman Kalasapudi, Hunter College F26 (New York) Arwa Yafai, Hunter College This year we will inaugurate a “drop in clinic” for graduate “Humoring the Body: Asian American Comics and their students to have one-on-one consultations with a professor Expressions in Asian American Politics” who will respond to student questions about graduate school Muneeba Talukder, Hunter College including dissertation writing, job market questions, and questions about interviews. Faculty will also provide “mock Dangerous Subjects and Disciplinary Death: Reimagining interviews” and can review your current materials by providing F24 Politics in Asian American Studies (South American A) feedback on CVs, teaching philosophies, job letters, etc. Bring Chair: Caroline Hong, City University of New York, Queens your materials and your questions! College 70 71 70 71 Revisiting 20th-Century Asian American Activism (Federal A) 1:30pm-3:00pm F30 Chair: Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado “‘Our Asian Soul’: The Problem and Promise of Shin’ya Asian Pacific American Institute, New York University Ono’s ‘Asian Nation’” F27 Sponsored Session - “A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Ryan Fukumori, University of Southern California Popular Culture” (Congressional) “Of Black Panthers and Samurai: The Cold War Masculinities of Richard Aoki” 3:00pm-4:30pm Diane C. Fujino, University of California, Santa Working Papers Session: Situating Asian American Critique: Barbara F28 The Poetics of Resistance in Place (South American A) “‘This isn’t your battle or your land’: Asian American Chair: Min Hyoung Song, Boston College Political Activism and the Specter of the Indigenous in “Occupy: Poeisis, Politics, Rage” Shawn Wong’s Homebase” David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University Catherine Fung, Bentley University “Reading the Political Navigations of Asian American “Longing and Belonging: Collective Memory, Activism, Women: Methodological Interventions from the and Nostalgia in Japanese American Poetry and Prose” Decolonial Turn” Emily Morishima, Western Governors University Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University Jen-feng Kuo, China Medical University, Taisan Revisiting the Los Angeles Riots/Civil Uprising: Sa-I-Gu “War Bride, Biopower, and Asian American Subjectivity F31 Twenty Years Later (Federal B) in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation” Chair: David K. Yoo, University of California, Los Angeles Hsiu-chuan Lee, National Taiwan Normal University Edward Taehan Chang, University of California, “Photos of the ‘Last Frontier’: Reading Asian and Native Riverside Relations in Colonial Alaska” Mary Yu Danico, California Polytechnic State Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota, University, Pomona Minneapolis, Twin Cities Edward J.W. Park, Loyola Marymount University Kyeyoung Park, University of California, Los Angeles Performing History, Expanding Race: Afro-Asian and Arab- Victor Hugo Viesca, California State University, Los F29 Asian Hip Hop, Film and Spoken Word (California) Angeles Chair: Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M Discussant: Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana- Reclaiming “Filipino Indigeneity” in the Diaspora: Beyond Champaign F32 the Postcolonial Archive (Massachusetts) “Afro-Asian Diasporic Intimacies: Mira Nair’s Mississippi Chair: Marie-Therese C. Sulit, Mount Saint Mary College Masala and Shailja Patel’s Migritude” “Philippine Colonial History in Postcolonial Translation: Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M Doing Judo on National Remembering” “Performing the Political: Kundiman’s 9/11 Poetry S. Lilly Mendoza, Oakland University Project” “From Decolonization to Indigenization: a Filipino Anantha Sudhakar, University of Illinois at Urbana- American Case Study” Champaign Elenita Fe Mendoza Strobel, Sonoma State “Afro-Asian Aesthetics in Early Hip Hop Culture and University Performance: Martin Wong’s Graffiti and Berry Gordy’s “Indigenous Memories and the Healing of Imperial The Last Dragon” Trauma” Shante Paradigm Smalls, Davidson College Tera Maxwell, Independent Scholar

72 73 72 73 Forms of Raced Emergence: Ghosts, Vagrants, Secrets and University of Massachusetts, Boston F33 (Ohio) Discussant: Tarry Hum, Queens College Chair: Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania “Census 2010 and AAPI Population Trends” “Disguises of Affect in Tao Lin’s Richard Yates” Howard Shi, Asian American Federation of New York Dorothy Wang, Williams College “Emergence of Ethnic Neighborhoods and Community of “Slow Film Movement: Intimate Textures in So Yong Interests: Los Angeles and Chicago” Kim’s In Between Days” Aggie Noah, Pennsylvania State University Joseph Jeon, Pomona College “Uniting Chicago Chinatown: Representing Community “Secret Alliances in Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Interests in Redistricting” Mandala” Theresa Mah, Chicago Coalition for a Better Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania Chinatown Community “We Draw the Lines: The California Citizens Redistricting Environmental Justice and Asian American Activism Commission” F34 (Pan American) Angelo Ancheta, Santa Clara University Chair: Zhou Xiaojing, Tufts University “The Vital Role of 20th-Century Asian American Poetry in Literature and the Korean War: Gender, Diaspora, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice” F37 Adoption (South American B) Chiyo Crawford, Tufts University Chair: Stella Oh, Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles “Korean/American Golfers as Ecological Imperialists, “Madwoman in the Diaspora: War, Displacement, and Nature Lovers, or Both?” Female Subjectivity in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Rachael Miyung Joo, Middlebury College Woman and Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach” “‘Wilderness’ as a ‘Contact Zone’ in Holder of the World Naomi Edwards, Stony Brook University-State by Bharati Mukherjee” University of New York Zhou Xiaojing, University of the Pacific “Emergency Measures: The Poetics of Transnational Adoption in Sun Yung Shin’s Skirt Full of Black” Golden Gate Acts: Theorizing an Asian American Avant- Kelly Adams, University of Wisconsin, Madison F35 Garde in San Francisco (Senate) “Memory, Melancholy, Myth: Reframing Relinquishment Chair: Sean Metzger, Duke University in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother “Outside the Lion Looking In: Lenora Lee’s Reflections Music” and Intercultural Wholeness” Patricia Chu, George Washington University SanSan Kwan, University of California, Berkeley “Performances of the In-Between: A Comparative Study The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and of Bernadette Cha’s Salted Linen and Theresa Hak F38 South Challenges Asian American Studies (Statler A) Kyung Cha’s Reveillé dans la Brume” Chair: Janet Carlson, Macalester College Esther Kim Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana- “Asian American Alumni and Community Building” Champaign Janet Carlson, Macalester College “On Modern Dance and Angel Island” “Should Every University have an Asian American Yutian Wong, San Francisco State University Studies Program?” Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington Expanding Populations and Voting Power: Census 2010, “How can Misperceptions about Asian Americans be F36 Redistricting, and AAPI Political Power (Ballroom) Countered?” Chair: Oiyan Poon, University of California, Los Angeles Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin

74 75 74 75 “Community-based Research Empowers Asian American The Politics of Intimacy (California) Communities” F41 Chair: Phanuel Antwi, St. Mary’s University Yvonne M. Lau, DePaul University Discussant: Phanuel Antwi, St. Mary’s University “My Arizona: Isamu Noguchi and the Modern Camp” Multiracial Asian/Americans: War and the Mixed Race Thy Phu, University of Western Ontario F39 Experience (Statler B) “International Responsibility, Testimonial Fiction, and the Chair: Sue-Je Gage, Ithaca College Cambodian Genocide” “Different Kinds of Occupation: Mixed Race People in Y-Dang Troeung, McMaster University Occupied Post-War Japan and Okinawa” “Filial Intimacies: (Re)Claiming Intergenerational War Lily Anne Yumi Welty, University of California, Santa Memories in Asian Diaspora Texts” Barbara Donald Goellnicht, McMaster University “When Half is Whole” Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Stanford University The Political Practice of Teaching Asian American Literature “Kiku and Isamu: Japanese Representations of Biracial F42 (EOC sponsored roundtable) (Federal A) Children in Post-war Japan” Chair: Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Zelideth M. Rivas, Grinnell College Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Politics and Policing of Difference: Asian America and Chris Eng, City University of New York, Graduate ‘Amerasians’” School Sue-Je Gage, Ithaca College Catherine Fung, Bentley University Betsy Huang, Clark University 4:30pm-6:00pm Sue Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Penguin Books Social and Wine Reception Literary Representations of Japanese American Internment (Congressional) F43 (Massachusetts) Chair: Malini Johar Scheuller, University of Florida “The Power of Poetics: Artistic Interventions in Citizen 4:45pm-6:15pm 13660” The Shimmering Life: Secularity and Asian American Stella Oh, Loyola Marymount University F40 Cultures (Federal B) “Gaman and Bushido: Tule Lake and the Politics of Chair: Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of California, Los Manhood” Angeles Terumi Rafferty-Osaki, American University Discussant: David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College “Remembering the Return: Resettlement, the Residues “‘What Surely Must Be Heaven’: Thinking Human Rights of Displacement and Revolt” and the Secular State in Asian/America” Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, University of Illinois at Crystal Parikh, New York University Urbana-Champaign “A Better Look at Better Luck: Secularity and the (A)Moral Dimensions of Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow” The Politics of Family Formation and Parenthood (Ohio) Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of California, Los F44 Chair: Hung Cam Thai, Pomona College Angeles “Transnational Mothers in Two Contemporary Asian “Against Asian American Health: Vibrant Secularities and Diasporic Narratives” Medical Narratives of Illness” Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Irvine “Conversion to Expressive Fatherhood Among Korean

76 77 76 77 Immigrant Dads: Father School USA as Gender Boot Asian American Students and the Everyday Politics of Camp” F48 Education (South American A) Allen Kim, University of California, Irvine Chair: Genevieve Leung, University of Pennsylvania “Generational Struggles and Identity Conflict Among “The 2011 San Francisco Mayoral Election: The Politics Vietnamese Immigrants: Finding a Middle Ground” of Intra-Chinese American Relations and their Bach Pham, East Carolina University Educational Implications” “Right to Family: Racialized Dynamics of Debates over Genevieve Leung, University of Pennsylvania Family Reunification” “‘They Respect Who You Are and They Don’t Make Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Fun of Who You Are’: Asian American Middle Schoolers’ Educational Experiences in a Socially-Engaged Urban Queer Nation, Queer Diasporas: Queer Asian American/ Charter School” F45 Diasporic Performance and Politics (Pan American) Ming-Hsuan Wu, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Jian Chen, Ohio State University “The Impact of Teachers’ Perception of Asian American Margaret Rhee, University of California, Berkeley Student Disabilities on Student Achievement and Yalini Dream, performance artist Engagement” Gina Velasco, Keene State College North Cooc, Harvard University

Divisions of Influence, Power, and Politics: A Roundtable Expanding the Informational: Asian American Digital F46 Discussion of Asian and Asian Pacific American collections F49 Representation and Community Empowerment (Statler A) at the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and the Chair: Paul Lai, St. Catherine University National Archives and Records Administration (Senate) Martin Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University Chair: Vivian Wong, University of California, Los Angeles Clara M. Chu, University of North Carolina at Discussant: Florante Ibanez, Loyola Marymount University Greensboro Konard Ng, The Smithsonian Institution Daniel C. Tsang, University of California, Irvine Franklin Odo, Library of Congress Jina Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reme Grefalda, Library of Congress Touger Vang, University of North Carolina, Rita Cacas, National Archives and Records Greensboro Administration Kathleen Lopez, Rutgers University

Organizing and Mobilizing Amidst Diversity, Part I: Identity, The Body Politic: Corporeality and Corpses in Vietnamese F47 Religion, and Politics Among Asian Americans (Ballroom) F50 Transnational Representation (Statler B) Chair: Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Chair: Nina Ha, Creighton University Riverside “A Dis(-)ease in the Family: Adoption and the “Religion and Political Participation among Asian Vietnamese Orphan” Americans” Catherine H. Nguyen, University of California, Los Janelle Wong, Seattle University Angeles “Religious Identity among Asian Americans and the “Bien Mat: Transformation/Loss/Disappearance (Artist Consequences for Community” Presentation)” Jerry Park, Baylor University Jerry Truong, University of California, San Diego “Desis Divided: Political Incorporation of South Asian Americans” Sangay Mishra, University of Southern California

78 79 78 79 Saturday April 14, 2012

80 81 7:30am-8:30am “Centers and Margins: Panethnicity and Asian American JAAS Board Meeting Studies across Generations” Continental Room K. Scott Wong, Williams College “Panethnicity, a Generation After: A Reply” Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego 7:30am-8:30am AAAS Mentorship Breakfast Refining Revolution: Asian American Art and Activist Senate S2 Practices (New York) Chair: Theodore S. Gonzalves, University of Maryland, Baltimore Cost: $15 per person County “Give Me Everything: Gaye Chan, Hasan Elahi, Eliza O. Are you interested in professional and academic mentorship? Barrios, and the New Gift Economy” Are you looking for a specialist in your field who can mentor you? Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University Are you interested in being a mentor for others? If so, come to “The Course of a Life: Visualizing Filipino American the AAAS Mentoring Breakfast. Our goals are to provide History and Absence” opportunities to connect mentees and mentors, engage in Theodore S. Gonzalves, University of Maryland, conversations with each other about professional and academic Baltimore County development, and collectively explore ideas regarding “Yonsei Hapa Uchinanchu Art and Activism: Emily meaningful career partnerships and other options in our field. Momohara Hanako and Laura Kina” Emily Momohara Hanako, Art Academy of Cincinnati 8:00am-1:00pm Laura Kina, DePaul University Registration Foyer Representations of South Asians in Film and Literature S3 (California) 8:00am-3:00pm Chair: Lavina Dhingra, Bates College “Asian American Patriots and Interrogating National Book Exhibits Security in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Hallway, Foyer, and Congressional Bay” Shilpa Davé, Brandeis University 8:30am-10:00am “The Function of Non-Fiction in Experimental Literature Yen Le Espiritu’s Asian American Panethnicity: One and a Review of Criticism on the Bengali Wolf Girls” S1 Generation After (Ballroom) Misun Dokko, Shippensburg University Chair: Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana- “The Politics of Identity Production/Destruction in Hari Champaign Kunzru’s Transmission” “Panethnicity and Research on Asian American Social Hyeyurn Chung, Sungshin Women’s University Movements” Linda Trinh Vo, University of California, Irvine Current Work and Reconsiderations in AfroAsian Studies “Asian American Panethnicity in the post-9/11 Era” S4 (Federal A) Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana- Chair: Cynthia Marasigan, State University of New York, Champaign Binghamton University “Panethnicity and the Study of the Asian American “The Coolie Masters” Movement” Lisa Yun, State University of New York, Binghamton Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado 82 83 82 83 University A Political Hermeneutics: Analyzing the Changing Meanings “AfroAsian Entanglements and National Destinies in the S7 and Memories of the Vietnam War (Ohio) Americas” Chair: Long Bui, University of California, Riverside Viranjini Munasinghe, Cornell University Discussant: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of “Weighing Solidarity and Violence: African American Connecticut, Storrs Soldier-Filipino Interactions in the Philippine-American “‘Vietnam’ as Floating Signifier: Deconstructing the War” Discursive Ends and Means of Contemporary Cynthia Marasigan, State University of New York, Geopolitics” Binghamton University Long Bui, University of California, Riverside “The Color of Blood: Interracial Intimacy, Hollywood “The Vietnam War on Screen: Vietnamese American Cinema and the Korean War” Re-tellings in Journey from the Fall” Daniel Kim, Brown University Mimi Khuc, University of California, Santa Barbara “Feeling for Freedom: Tracing a Hidden Genealogy of Chinese Immigration: Past, Present and Future Format Black-Vietnamese Female Solidarity” S5 (Federal B) Jennifer Tran, University of Southern California Chair: John S.W. Park, University of California, Santa “A Taste of Memory: The Vietnam War in Monique Barbara Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth” “New Trends in Chinese Immigration” Anh Thang Dao, University of Southern California Xiaojian Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara “Illegality as a Recurring Theme in Chinese Migration” Cultural Production, Art, and Activism (Pan American) John S.W. Park, University of California, Santa S8 Chair: Antonio Tiongson, Colorado College Barbara “Hát Bôi Classical Opera as ‘Technology of Memory’ in “The Politics of Family in Chinese Immigration” the Vietnamese American Community” Jason Stohler, University of California, Santa Barbara Kim Nguyen Tran, University of California, Los Angeles Remittances: The Materiality of Transnationality “Tan Dun and the Chinese State” S6 (Massachusetts) Eric Hung, Rider University Chair: Chia Youyee Vang, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Reel Politics: Anti-Communism, Film and “Those Miraculous Economies: Asian American Family Transnationalism in Southern California’s Vietnamese and its Asian Counterpart” American Community” Grace Hui-chuan Wu, Pennsylvania State University Phi Hong Su, University of California, Los Angeles “Re-building the Nation: Gawad Kalinga and Diasporic Philanthropy in the Philippines” Film Screening: Better Places: The Hmong of Rhode Island Eric J. 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84 85 84 85 “Oakland to Tohoku: Zainichi Korean Response to Post- Women, Home, and National Belonging (Statler B) Crisis Nationalism in Japan” S13 Chair: Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Jane Lee, University of California, Los Angeles “The Politics of U.S. Intervention in the Sex Trafficking “Bridging Communities: The Power of Collaboration in a Industry of Cambodia” Post 9/11 America” Meardey Kong, University of Arizona Alexandra Margolin, University of California, Los “Navigating Resistance and Belonging: How Asian Angeles American Girls Construct ‘Home’” “Challenging Homonormativity through Queer Immigrant Tomoko Tokunaga, University of Maryland, College Activism” Park Lai Wa Wu, University of California, Los Angeles “The Politics of National Belonging: Living Transnational Lives Between Homeland and Home” Advancing Asian American Health: Innovative Academic- Helene Lee, Dickinson College S11 Community Partnership (South American B) “Malakas si Maganda//The Strength of Beauty: The Chair: Grace J. Yoo, San Francisco State University Politics of Ethnic Beauty” “Teaching about Asian American Pacific Islanders, Type Evelyn Rodriguez, University of San Francisco 2 Diabetes and Obesity” Edith Chen, California State University, Northridge 10:15am-11:45am “Asian Americans Working to End Hepatitis B” Ted Fang, Asian Week Foundation The Continuing Significance of Racialization and Generation “Addressing Unmet Needs of Asian American and Pacific S14 (New York) Islander Cancer Survivors” Chair: Huping Ling, Truman State University Mai Nhung Le, San Francisco State University “Second-Generation Asian Americans in the Midwest: “Developing a Peer Support Intervention for Chinese The Continuing Significance of Racialization” Immigrant Women with Cancer: Lessons Learned” Monica M. Trieu, Purdue University Grace J. Yoo, San Francisco State University “A Tale of Two Cities: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community in Chicago and St. Louis” Cartographies of Asian/American Gender: Re(vision) and Huping Ling, Truman State University S12 Resistance in Cultural Formations (Statler A) “Generational Differences in Family Conflict and Chair: Karen Kuo, Arizona State University Acculturation” Discussant: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University Kin Cheung (George) Lee, Alliant University “On the Grounds of Shame, Joy! Undoing Asian Model Minority Discourses and America’s Cold War in Asia American Men in Hollywood Movies” S15 (Ballroom) Celine Parrenas Shimizu, University of California, Chair: Mae Ngai, Columbia University Santa Barbara “The ‘World Today’ and the Manufacture of the Chinese East “Masculine Racial Formations in ’s Diaspora in Cold War Asia” Goes West The Making of an Oriental Yankee : ” Mary Lui, Yale University Karen Kuo, Arizona State University “The Military Occupation of Japan and An Origin of the “Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina” Model Minority Myth: Nisei as the Model Soldiers of a Denise Cruz, Indiana University Democratized Japan” “Evading Rescue: Freelance Migration and the Fight Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania Against the War on Trafficking” “The Symbiosis of ‘Brain Drains’: Intellectual Migrations Maria Cecilia Hwang, Brown University as a Product of the Cold War Alliance between Taiwan 86 87 86 87 and the United States, 1950-1965” Asian American Military Experience” Madeline Hsu, University of Texas at Austin Jeanette Yih Harvie, University of California, Santa Barbara Asian American Political Contentions in Silicon Valley “Norman Mineta: From Heart Mountain to Presidential S16 (California) Cabinet” Chair: Mae Lee, De Anza College Karen Inouye, Indiana University, Bloomington Discussant: Jim Nguyen, De Anza College “Dragon on the Bayou: Glenda Joe and the Asian “From Asian American Studies to Building a Civic American Movement in Houston” Leadership Pipeline: The APALI Model at De Anza Roy Vu, North Lake College College” “Sikh American Political Trends in the Post-9/11 Era” Michael Chang, De Anza College Jaideep Singh, California State University, East Bay “Social Network to Political Pipeline: The Example of BAAPALS” Speaking the Word: the Politics and Power of Pin@y Poetics Mike Hoa Nguyen, the Office of Congressman Mike S19 (Massachusetts) Honda Chair: Linda Pierce Allen, University of Southern Mississippi “Asian American Politics and Post-Civil Rights “Iteration As Activism: How Pin@y Poetic Voices Citizenship” Deconstruct Colonial Narratives” Mae Lee, De Anza College Linda Pierce Allen, University of Southern Mississippi “Poet and Pastor: Words that Bond and Bridge” Politicizing Affect: South Asian Americans Negotiating the Randy Gonzales, University of Southern Mississippi S17 Intimate (Federal A) Chair: Lalaie Ameeriar, University of California, Santa Figuring Bio-poetics: The Politics of Asian/American Barbara S20 Aesthetics and Corporeality (Ohio) Discussant: Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University Chair: Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego “Domesticating Immigrants: Unemployment WSs and the Discussant: Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego Politics of Smell in Contemporary Toronto” “Pigments of ImagiNation: Tattoos, Corporeality, and the Lalaie Ameeriar, University of California, Santa Aesthetics of Race” Barbara Todd Honma, University of California, San Diego “Sporting Masculinity: Vijay Singh and the Construction “Visceral Textures: The Anti-Colonial Feminist Writings of of an Alternative Minority Masculinity” Ismat Chughtai and Rashid Jahan” Sameer Pandya, University of California, Santa Neetu Khanna, Wesleyan University Barbara “Shifting Bodies, Shifting Subjects: Organ “Exhibition Cultures/Visual Cultures: Politicizing South Transplantation and Asian American Political Identity” Asian American Art” Nisha Kunte, University of Southern California Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College “Intimate Landscapes: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions” Expanding the Political: Asian Pacific Americans at the Gayatri Gopinath, New York University S21 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Pan American) Chair: James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution, Center From WWII to 9/11: Asian Americans in Politics and the for Folklife and Cultural Heritage S18 Military (Federal B) Phil Tajitsu Nash, University of Maryland Chair: Ibrahim Aoude, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Arlene Reiniger, Smithsonian Institution, Center for “Once Camouflaged: Theoretical Significance of the Folklife and Cultural Heritage

88 89 88 89 Noriko Sanefuji, Smithsonian Institution, National Chinatown, 1911-1980” Museum of American History K. Ian Shin, Columbia University Mark Puryear, University of Maryland “Food Refugees: Chinese Restaurant Workers, the International Institute, and Migration during Global Organizing and Mobilizing Amidst Diversity, Part II: Turmoil, 1943-1965” S22 Advancing the Political and Community Interests of Asian Heather Ruth Lee, Brown University Americans (Senate) “‘John Kwang’s people’: Nostalgic Korean Kingdoms in “What Do AAPIs Want? Building a Policy Agenda from Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker” the Bottom Up” David Liao, Brown University Deepa Iyer, National Council of Asian Pacific “Return to Walden Pond: Reclaiming the Great White Americans Father in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation” “Political Participation: Identity Formation and Deborah Koto Katz, Brown University Challenges for New Immigrants” Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles Working Papers Session: The Remains of Migration: “Bridging the Educational Gaps Across AAPI Groups” S25 Transnational Practices of Memorialization and Shirley Hune, University of Washington Historiography (Statler A) “Moves Within the Body Politic: The Migration of Asian Chair: Sandhya Shukla, University of Virginia Americans within the United States” “Militarized Refuge: A Critical Rereading of Vietnamese Julie Park, University of Maryland Flight to the U.S.” Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego Building a Social Justice Movement of College Student “The Korean War Veterans Memorial and Its Returns: S23 Leaders through Community-based Participatory Action Martial Affect and the Aesthetics of Becoming” Research and Service Learning (South American A) Joon Hyun Michael Choi, University of Maryland, Chair: Tu-Uyen Nguyen, California State University, Fullerton University College Tu-Uyen Nguyen, California State University, “The Politics of Intimate Violence, the Church, and Fullerton Immigration within the Korean Diaspora” Jedrek Chua, University of California, Irvine Crystal Baik, University of Southern California Nina Nguyen, California State University, Fullerton “The Perils of Home: Domesticity and the Oriental Viraj Patel, Georgetown University/National Asian Question” Pacific American Women’s Forum-DC Chapter Jason U. Kim, University of California, Berkeley Judy Shing, Georgetown University Stephanie Chang, University of Maryland, College Consuming Asian Americans: Writing the Asian American Park S26 Body (Statler B) Juliane Nguyen, California State University, Fullerton Chair: Robert Ku, State University of New York, Binghamton University Eating, Elections, and Exclusion: A Century of Asian “The Cuban Chinese Crossroads in Cristina Garcia’s S24 American Transnational Politics in History and Literature, Monkey Hunting and Frank Chin’s Talking to Sun Tzu” 1911-2011 (South American B) Grace Yeh, California Polytechnic University, San Chair: Deborah Koto Katz, Brown University Luis Obispo Discussant: Min Hyoung Song, Boston College “‘Who Eats the Leftovers?’: Culinary Revision in San “My Duty to God and My Countries: Citizenship, Francisco Chinatown Narratives” Transnationalism, and the Boy Scouts in New York’s Stephanie Chan, University of California, Santa Cruz

90 91 90 91 “(Dis)Ease and Excess in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the 12:00pm-1:00pm Mouth” Nina Ha, Creighton University Queer Section (Federal A) Multiracial Section (Ohio) 11:15am-12:00pm Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter Religion Section (Massachusetts) Tour National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution East of California Section (New York) Eight and F Streets, NW, Washington, D.C. 1:00pm-2:30pm A collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, Portraiture Now: Asian Plenary 3 – Thirty Years after Vincent Chin: Violence and American Portraits of Encounter, is the Smithsonian’s first major S28 the Politicization of Asian America (Ballroom) showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the Chair: Sylvia Chong, University of Virginia groundbreaking work of seven talented artists from across the country Helen Zia, Independent Writer and Activist and around the world, this exhibition offers provocative renditions of the Edward Chang, University of California, Riverside Asian American experience. The artists featured are CYJO, New York; Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston Hye Yeon Nam, Atlanta and New York; Shizu Saldamando, Los Curtis Chin, Writer/Producer and Board President of Angeles; Roger Shimomura, Lawrence, KS; Satomi Shirai, New York; Tam Tran, Memphis, TN; and Zhang Chun Hong, Lawrence, KS. This Asian Pacific Americans for Progress group of artists demonstrates, in microcosm, the nuances inherent to the Asian American experience. Their portraits of encounter offer 2:45pm-4:15pm representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long Transnational Organizing, Civil Rights Activism and Cultural obscured the complexity of being Asian in America. S29 Work (California) Please meet at the information desk by the Eight and F Streets Chair: Estella Habal, San Jose State University entrance. The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium Asian American Discussant: Victor Romero, Pennsylvania State University, Portraits of Encounter Between Image and Word will follow the Dickenson School of Law tour at 12:15 p.m. For more information on the exhibition and “Transnational Organizing and the KDP” symposium, visit http://apa.si.edu/symposium/schedule.html Estella Habal, San Jose State University “Stopping the Marcos Dictatorship in the Halls of the 11:30am-1:00pm U.S. Congress” Jon Melegrito, American Federation of State, County,

Asian American Studies Center Press (University of and Municipal Employees S27 California, Los Angeles) Sponsored Session: Reception “The Ballad of Gene and Silme and the Case against with Light Refreshments, Featuring a Conversation with the Marcos Dictatorship” Editors, Guest Editors, and Authors (Congressional) Ermena Vinluan, Touch Base Productions This reception includes celebrating both the Amerasia Journal Special Issue on Sa-I-Gu and the AAPI Nexus Journal Special Issue on Immigration. In addition, we will be highlighting a few Immigrant Political Incorporation: Lessons for Theory and other publications that were released in the past year by our S30 Practice (Federal A) press. The editors, guest editors and authors will provide brief Chair: Madhulika Khandelwal, City University of New remarks. York, Queens College Discussant: Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts,

92 93 92 93 Boston in Asian American Communities” “Sometimes White, Sometimes Not: Segmented Political Kritika Agarwal, State University of New York, Buffalo Incorporation Among South Asians in NYC” Sayu Bhojwani, Columbia University Asian American Studies and the Politics of Place (New York) “‘Synergy in Diversity’: The Maturation of New York City’s S33 Chair: Sarah D. Wald, Drew University Asian American Electorate in 2009” “The Spatial Politics of Highway Building and Urban Tarry Hum, City University of New York Renewal in Boston’s Chinatown, 1950-1965.” “Occupy Asia-Town or Not: A Survey of Young Adult Civic Thomas Chen, Brown University Participation” “‘SGV Dreamgirl’: Interracial Intimacies and the Michael Liu, University of Massachusetts, Boston Multiracial Production of Place” Star Wang, University of Massachusetts, Boston Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University “Ethnic Bloc Voting in Hawai‘i” “There’s No Place Called Home: The Post-Vietnam Michael Haas, California Polytechnic University, South in Monique Truong’s Fiction” Pomona Frank Cha, College of William and Mary “Radical Agrarianism and the Short Fiction of Hisaye As American As Jackrabbit Adobo: Feasts, Harvests, Yamamoto” S31 Resistance, Empire, and the History of Filipina/o American Sarah D. Wald, Drew University Food (Federal B) Chair: Anita Mannur, Miami University Refugee Retelling: Remembering War through Writing and Discussant: Amy Besa, Independent Food Scholar/Historian S34 Film (Ohio) “As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Filipina/o American Chair: Marguerite Nguyen, Wesleyan University Food Before World War II” “The Politics of Refugee Poetics in Li-Young Lee’s The Dawn Mabalon, San Francisco State University City in Which I Love You” “American and Filipino Food Education in the Aline Lo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Philippines, 1898-1946” “‘May Bay’: Oral History, Film, and the Transgenerational Alex Orquiza, Johns Hopkins University Transmission of Stories” “Feasts of Resistance: Using Food and Poetry to Teach Evyn Le Espiritu, Pomona College about Gender and Asian American Communities” “Infertility and Sexual Citizenship in Vietnamese- Emily Lawsin, University of Michigan American Literature” Phuong Nguyen, Wilfrid Laurier University The Sexual and Racial Politics of Citizenship (Massachusetts) S32 Chair: Rick Baldoz, Oberlin College The Politics of Sexuality, Race, and Religion (Pan American) “Pacific Insurgencies: Race, Resistance, and the S35 Chair: Sharon A. Suh of Seattle University Recuperation of Asian Manhood” Sylvia Chan-Malik, University of California, Santa Cruz Kornel Chang, Rutgers University Patrick Cheng, Episcopal Divinity School “Angel Island of the East: Enforcing Asian Exclusion at Gina Masequesmay, California State University, Ellis Island” Northridge Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University “‘The Picturesque Hindoo’: Aryan, Asiatic, and White Mediated Art, Mediated Audiences (Senate) Masculinities in Early 20th-Century North America” S36 Chair: Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware Manan Desai, Syracuse University Discussant: Daniel Y. Kim, Brown University “Aliens and Ex-Citizens: The Politics of Citizenship Loss “Memoirs of a Kisaeng: Intermedial Choreographies of

94 95 94 95 Becoming” Electoral Successes by Hmong Americans in Socially Christine Mok, Brown University Excluded Communities” “The Politics of Androgyny: K-Drama’s Diasporic Carolyn Wong, Carleton College/University of Subjects” Massachusetts, Boston Michelle Cho, Brown University “Asian-American as the New Majority: Opportunities and “Audience Formations and New Television Modalities: Challenges in Multiracial Electoral Organizing in San ImaginAsian TV and Cinema Asian America On Francisco” Demand” Alex Tom, Chinese Progressive Association Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware “Civic Engagement and Organizing” Lydia Lowe, Chinese Progressive Association, Boston Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History – S37 Presentations from the Authors (South American A) Theorizing Asian Americans: Race, Ethnicity, and Nation Chair: Miki Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus S40 (Statler B) “My Mother’s Story: It Took an Act of Congress” Chair: Lisa Mar, University of Maryland Miki Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus “Genetic Citizens: Multiracial Asian Americans and the “Japanese Women and Allied Forces” Limits of Nation” Katie Kaori Hayashi, Journalist LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington “An Unexpected Life That Let into a Long and Fruitful “‘The Intelligence of a People is Expressed in its Path - Kimiko K. Dardis” Civilization’: The Politics of Asian American Intelligence Shizuko Suenaga, Seattle University Testing, 1920-1935” David Palter, University of California, Santa Cruz Hawai‘i: Power, Politics, Economy (South American B) “Every 10 Years, I Become Pilipino: The Ethno-Racial S38 Chair: John P. Rosa, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Project of the Philippines and the United States Census” “Manoa to Waikiki: Historical and Contemporary Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez, University of California, San Honolulu from Mauka to Makai” Diego John P. Rosa, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa “The Influence of Multiculturalism Policy on Ethnic “Alter-Native Energy for Hawai‘i: Challenging Lines of Identity among Asian Youth in the United States and Power” Canada” Davianna Põmaika‘i McGregor, University of Hawai‘i Vincent Laus, University of California, Irvine at Manoa “APEC in Hawai‘i: Economic Salvation or Deepening Crisis?” 4:30pm-5:30pm Ibrahim G. Aoudé, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa General Membership Meeting (Federal A)

Remixing Politics: Community-based Strategies for Social 6:00pm-7:30pm S39 Change (Statler A) Awards Reception (Ballroom) Chair: May Fu, University of San Diego Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Discussant: May Fu, University of San Diego *Badges or tickets are required for this reception. “Asian Americans in the Rainbow: Multiracial Politics in the Reagan Era, 1980-1988” Eric Shih, University of Michigan “When Descriptive Representation Comes First:

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