Looking for syllabus recs for a fall u/g class on Asian Americans & Pop Culture. I welcome all suggestions but am interested in: 1) scholarly essays on the study of pop culture; 2) popular lit/nonfiction texts (incl graphic narratives); 3) digital media. I will post the syllabus once I'm done. Ty!

Resource for those teaching or interested in contemp #asianamlit: a crowd-sourced list of recently published works (2020-present), incl but not limited to fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, nonfiction. Look at how much we have to say. #asianamericanliterature #booksky

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Two questions, the 1st speculative, the 2nd fact-finding:
1) Given the success/accolades he achieved in his life, why isn't John Steinbeck more of a presence in 20c Amer lit studies?
2) Is he still taught in secondary school or even college? (I'm GenX & feel like everyone read Of Mice & Men.)

This is a new direction for my work, and one that makes me nervous. "BTS & the Labor of Techno-Orientalism" is the first step in a longer work on Asian racialization in the time of COVID. Thank you to the editors/readers at Lateral for their support.

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Watching South Korean citizens revolt against martial law & this woman is a complete badass

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

When I deleted my Twitter posts, this is the only thing I bothered downloading. #BTS #OT7

Percival Everett’s James wins the National Book Award for fiction and if you haven’t already this is your reminder to read it because it is an absolute masterpiece.

I started this on my other socials, but am bringing it here: B/w 7-1-24 & 6-30-25, my goal is to read 40 books that are not related to my research (race & Amer lit, Asian Am lit/culture, & trains). Each book I finish will be posted in its own comment below. I welcome suggestions & conversation!

“I am not a victim of racism. I am a
tormentor of racists.” — Vinícius Júnior

Thanks to the hard work of students, faculty, and alumni,
#AmherstCollege has the first stand-alone #asianamstudies major at a liberal arts college in the US.

Kimberly McKee, author of ADOPTION FANTASIES (new in our Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture series!), talks about her work with @juliaxlee.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The latest episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in Asian Am Studies is out. Christopher Patterson speaks about Landbridge [life in fragments] (2023), written by his late partner Y-Dang Troeng, and his own work, Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir.

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Thrilled that my 1st post "on here" is a convo w/ @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social abt his incredible book Model Minority Masochism. Takeo asks us to consider why the model minority has such a hold on the nation & on Asian Ams themselves.
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