Min Young Song, “The World of Asian American Studies”

Edward Said, Orientalism
Anne Cheng, Ornamentalism
Jane Iwamura, Virtual Orientalism

Anne Cheng, The Melancholy of Grief

Orrin Wang, “Neither”
Anne Cheng, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/anti-asian-violence.html

Wesley Yang, “Paper Tigers”
David Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (literary criticism)

The Sympathizer?
Ling Ma, Severence
Patricia Park, Re Jane
Kerry Young, Pao

Kenji Yoshino, Covering
Don Lee, Yellow
Queer trans poets event

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Poetry: Ocean Vuong, Susan Choi,
Jenny Xie, Eye Level

Kang, The Vegetarian
Murakami stories?

K-Horror?
BTS?

History:

exclusion act; railroad÷
Ellis Island; Angel Island
”Remembering Afong Moy,” The Library Company of Philadelphia ; Nancy E. Davis, The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in America; long article https://www.chsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2011HP_02_Haddad.pdf
Internment camps
boat people
Helen Zia, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
the Oscar-nominated film, Who Killed Vincent Chin?; the Bill Moyers series Becoming American: The Chinese Experience; and most recently in the acclaimed 2020 PBS series Asian Americans.
Veterans/asians in the military; death of Danny Chen
Jennifer Gonniman, “Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992–2011”
LA riots: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-riots-unity-meeting-20170429-story.html

Yellowface:
Hudson, AAWW roundtable
Emma Stone

Hawaii documenary

Matt’s event: writer’s group: http://www.kundiman.org/what-is-kundiman
My Hunter pal Jen Lue would be happy to reach out to potential writers or panelists: jen.w.lue@gmail.com. http://www.jenlue.com/

Vani’s unit: women’s liberation movements

Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker (novel)
Don Lee, Yellow (stories)
Susan Choi, American Woman (novel)

John Okada, No-No Boy

Queer theory

?Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

?Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

Carlos Bulosan, On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings (essays and journalism)
Luis Francia, ed. Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of 20th Century Philippine Literature in English

Rachel Lee, The Americas of Asian American Literature
Cathy Park Hong
Sianne Ngai
Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

COVID:

Min Jin Lee NYT article
Patricia Park Covid article

Interracial relationships:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/essay-interracial-love/

Monsoon Wedding

Filipino / Vietnamese experience

Anthony Ocampo, “Filipinos, The Latinos of Asia”: NPR interview with Maria Hinojosa

Gran Turino

Laos/Hmong/Thai/Burmese experiences

Subscribe: “New Voices in Vietnamese American Literature: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan” https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/september/new-voices-vietnamese-american-literature-conversation-viet-thanh-nguyen-andrew-lam

Black/Asian:

Cathy Park Hong chapters (on Richard Pryor/kung fu movies) / Rush Hour
A Chinese Caribbean literature? http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/discussions/identifying-chinese-caribbean-literature
An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean

Mental Health:

Amy Wong Public Books article
New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/minor-feelings-and-the-possibilities-of-asian-american-identity