SELECTED ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC HISTORY WRITING
COMPARATIVE RACE STUDIES OF LOS ANGELES
THE (INTER)DISCIPLINE OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
ESSAYS AND OPINION
Please see my CV for a full list of publications.
- “Contesting Los Angeles: Nodes of Race, Space, and Power in the Modern City,” Journal of Urban History 47:1 (2021): 223-229. Link.
- “Resisting Camelot: Race and Resistance to the Los Angeles-San Fernando Valley Secession Movement,” California History 93:3 (Fall 2016): 28-51. Link.
- “‘History Could Save the Verdugo Hills Golf Course:’ Preservation, Coalition, and Tuna Canyon,” Southern California Quarterly 98:3 (Fall 2016): 321-341. Link.
- "Japanese American Resettlement in Postwar America: The Los Angeles Experience," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Jon Butler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). Reprinted in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History (2019) Link.
- “Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles: Japanese Americans, African Americans and the Contested Spaces of Southern California,” in The Nation and its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants, eds. John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson (New York: Routledge, 2014), 29-48.
- “The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities in ‘America’s Suburb,’” The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed, ed. Quintard Taylor, Jr. (Spring 2011). Link.
THE (INTER)DISCIPLINE OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
- ‘“I Realized History Isn’t Some Old, Intangible Concept:’ Lessons from an Asian American History Pop-Up Museum,” The History Teacher 56:2 (February 2023): 177-208.
- “Contingent Labor and the Contradictions of Asian American Studies,” Journal of Asian American Studies 25:2 (June 2022): 283–295.
- “The Origins of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center,” in Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies, ed. Russell Jeung, et al. (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2019).
- “The Twenty Year Tale of Interpreting a Multiethnic Urban Uprising: Towards an Historiography of Sa-I-Gu,” Amerasia Journal 38:1 (2012): 175-192. Link.
- “The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States,” Amerasia Journal 37:3 (2011): 149-161. Co-authored with Alfred P. Flores, Jr., Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, Kehaulani Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren. Link.
ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
- "Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in the Americas and Europe," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- "Japanese Americans and the Birth - and Rebirth - of Buddhism in the City of Angels," Lost and Found: Religion in Los Angeles, eds., Diane Winston and Richard Flory (New York: Routledge, 2021). Link.
- “Reconfiguring Asian America: Asian Immigration Since 1965,” Asian Americans: Past, Present and Future, eds., Eunai Shrake, Edith Chen, and Teresa Williams Leon (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2020). Link.
- “Finding Buddha in the Barrio: Reflections on the Unanticipated Consequences of Archival Research,” UCLA Historical Journal 27:1 (Fall 2016): 27-34. Link.
- “Understanding Oppositional Behaviors of Asian Americans: Critical Race Theory Approach” in Adolescent Behavior Research Studies, ed. Rene S. Grenell (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007), 9-32. Co-authored with Eunai Kim Shrake.
- “Beyond ‘Living La Vida Boba’: Social Space and Transnational, Hybrid Asian American Youth Culture,” Amerasia Journal 32:2 (2006): 89-102. Link.
ESSAYS AND OPINION
- "The Dharma of a Turkey Sandwich" Everyday Buddhism, July 2022. Link.
- "The Pure Land Is in the West," Lion's Roar, April 2022. Link.
- "Mindful Action in Mindless Times: A Buddhist Response to Injustice," Wheel of Dharma, May 2021. Link.
- “Corita Kent: The Alchemy of the Moment is Happening,” Windward Magazine, Spring 2019, 30-31.
- “For the Record: Different Neighborhood, Same Significance,” Rafu Shimpo, Aug. 30, 2016, 3.
- “The Complicated Legacy of Richard Alarcón,” Rafu Shimpo, Aug. 7, 2014.
- Re: “Just Whose America Is This?” Pacific Citizen, June 21-July 4, 2013, 2.
- “Remembering a Sad Chapter: Historic Designation Is Still Sought for the Former Tuna Canyon Detention Station,” Rafu Shimpo, May 18, 2013, 3.
- “Re: ‘The Tea Party vs. HERD Mentality,’” Pacific Citizen, February 17-March 1, 2012, 2.
- “Economic Realities and Student Dreams in the City of Angels,” in Navigating the Great Recession: Immigrant Families’ Stories of Resilience, ed. Ana Sánchez-Muñoz et al. (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 2011), 95-100.
- “Civil Discourse on Immigration,” Pacific Citizen, April 1-4, 2011, 2.
- “Ronald Takaki: People’s Historian,” Asian Week, June 2, 2009.
- “Adventures in (Pan)Ethnicity,” in Learning English, Learning America: Voices of Latinos and Asian Americans, ed. Juana Mora et al. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 2008), 92-96.
Please see my CV for a full list of publications.