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Cruising through Japanese Americans’ love of cars
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Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles By Oliver Wang (Los Angeles: Angel City Press, 2025, 272 pp., $50, hardcover) When picking up the formidable “Cruising J-Town” by […] READ MORE
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Giant tribute to Giant Robot
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Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture By Eric Nakamura (Montreal, Quebec: Drawn & Quarterly, 2024, 464 pp., $49.95, hardcover) “Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian […] READ MORE
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A sentimental celebration of a cartoonist and a community
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Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience By Kelly Goto, illustrated by Sam Goto (Seattle, WA: Chin Music Press, 2024, 264 pp., $37.15, hardcover) “Seattle Samurai: A […] READ MORE
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Reckoning with the trauma of a family’s unjust incarceration
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THE POET AND THE SILK GIRL: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, IMPRISONMENT, AND PROTEST By Satsuki Ina (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2024, 312 pp., $35, hardcover) Satsuki Ina’s book, “The Poet […] READ MORE
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Intriguing narratives on understudied JAs
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The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History By Greg Robinson with Jonathan van Harmelen (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024, 276 pp., $30, paperback) “The […] READ MORE
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A study of J/A and Ainu women
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SHADOW TRACES: SEEING JAPANESE/AMERICAN AND AINU WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVESBy Elena Tajima Creef (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2022, 188 pp., $26, paperback) Looking at the photos presented in […] READ MORE
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JA gender, transnationalism and racial politics in the interwar period
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NEW WOMEN OF EMPIRE: GENDERED POLITICS AND RACIAL UPLIFT IN INTERWAR JAPANESE AMERICA By Chrissy Yee Lau (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022, 206 pp., $30, paperback) In “New Women […] READ MORE
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