H. M. A. Leow

In the American Philippines, officials used vagrancy laws to police same-sex relations while avoiding explicit bans.

In 1930s New York, Chinese opera was praised uptown but mocked in Chinatown.

Children’s books introduced Vietnamese refugees to US readers, often simplifying their histories and experiences.

Despite having their citizenship withheld before the war, Chinese American women in the Bay Area made significant contributions to the wartime labor force.

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.

The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.