Publications & Other Scholarship

Publications

Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early 21st Century (Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). [with Ronald Schmidt, Sr., Rodney E. Hero, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh]

Asian Americans Politics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008/2009) [with Okiyoshi Takeda].

“APA Voters, Issues, and the 2008 Elections,” National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac, forthcoming.

“Asian American Groups,” International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. By George T. Kurian (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming).

Review of Thomas P. Kim, The Logic of Party Competition: Asian Americans and Party Competition (Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2007), published in Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming.

“Asian American Groups,” in George T. Kurian, ed., International Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming).

“APA Voters, Issues, and the 2008 Elections,” ,” in Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai, eds., National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac, 2007-08 13th ed. (Los Angeles:  UCLA Asian American Studies Center, forthcoming).

“Small Places for Different Faces:  Political Science Scholarship on Asian Pacific Americans,” PS:  Political Science and Politics 37 (July 2004), 497-500. [with Okiyoshi Takeda]

“Politics and Civil Rights,” in Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles, eds., The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century (Los Angeles:  UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2003).

“Pan-Asian American Identity and Cross-Racial Coalitions,” [review of The Making of Asian America through Political Participation], Asian American Policy Review XI (2002):  67-70.

“Asian-Pacific Americans and the New Minority Politics,” PS:  Political Science and Politics 34 (Fall 2001), 605-610. [with Don T. Nakanishi]

Editor. Symposium:  Asian-Pacific American Politics, in PS:  Political Science and Politics 34 (Fall 2001), 605-44. [co-edited with Don T. Nakanishi]

“A New Day,” in Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai, eds., National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac, 2001-02 10th ed. (Los Angeles:  UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2001), pp. 18-19.

“Immigration Restriction,” in The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (Phoenix, Ariz.:  Oryx Press, 2000).

“Model Minority,” in The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (Phoenix, Ariz.:  Oryx Press, 2000).

“Multiculturalism,” in The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (Phoenix, Ariz.:  Oryx Press, 2000).

Editor. Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (Phoenix, Ariz.:  Oryx Press, 2000). [co-edited with Jeffrey D. Schultz, Kerry L. Haynie, and Anne M. McCulloch]

Review of Lyman Tower Sargent, ed., Political Thought in the United States:  A Documentary History (New York and London:  New York University Press, 1997), for H-POL (<H-POL@h-net.msu.edu>), March 7, 1998.

“’Chan is Missing’:  Liberalism and the Blending of a Kaleidoscopic Culture.” Working Paper #6, Political Film Society. 1996.

Review of Cary D. Wintz, ed., African American Political Thought, 1890-1930:  Washington, DuBois, Garvey, and Randolph (Armonk, N.Y.:  M.E. Sharpe, 1996), in Southeastern Political Review 25 (June 1997), pp. 388-389.

Review of John C. Kuzenski, Charles S. Bullock III, and  Ronald Keith Gaddie, eds., David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South (Nashville, Tenn.:  Vanderbilt University Press, 1995), in Southeastern  Political  Review 25 (March 1997), pp. 187-188.

"Music, Rock and Roll," in The Dictionary of American History, Supplement, pt. 2 (New York:  Scribners’s, 1996).

"Our Social Fabric is Wearing as it Should" [op-ed article],  Star Tribune, April 2, 1995, p. 23A.

Review of Jill Norgren and Serena Nanda's American Cultural Pluralism and Law (New York:  Praeger, 1988), in Law and Inequality:  A Journal of Theory and Practice VII (July 1989), 519-22.

 

 

Other Scholarly Writing

“The New Immigration, Ethno-racial Identity, and the Political Incorporation of Asians and Latinos,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2004. [with Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Rodney E. Hero, and Ronald Schmidt, Sr.]

“The Impact of Recent Immigration on Ethno-Racial Politics in the United States,” paper presented at the 19th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, 2003. [with Ronald Schmidt, Sr., Rodney E. Hero, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh]

“Political Science, The New Immigration and Racial Politics in the United States:  What Do We Know?  What Do We Need to Know?” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 2002. [with Ronald Schmidt, Sr., Rodney E. Hero, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh]

“Searching for Asian American:  Political Science and the Study of an Overlooked Minority,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Calif., 2001. [with Okiyoshi Takeda]

“Multicultural Education and the Struggle to Define the American Image, paper presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington .D.C.

“The New Nativists and the Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., 1997.

"Politics and Diversity in School:  The Debate Over Multicultural Education," paper presented at the annual  meeting of the Western Political Science Association,  Portland, Oregon, 1995.

"Mind Games:  The Cultural Bases of Group Conflict and  Consensus," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1991.

"Uses, Abuses, and Better Uses:  The Concept of Culture in Political Analysis,"  paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1990.

"Popular Culture and Political Change:  An Analysis and  Reinterpretation," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Culture Association, Toronto, Canada,  1990.

"Blowin' in the Wind:  Culture, Politics, and the Search for Democracy," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1988.

"How Big the PIG?  Wisconsin Campaign Contributions, Legislative Vote Scores, and the Party In Government," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast  Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987. [with Mark Rom]

"Financing a Comeback:  Campaign Finance Laws and Prospects for Political Party Resurgence"; paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, La., 1985. [with Mark Rom]