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Gail NomuraAssociate Professor, Asian/Pacific American Studies
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Co-editor with Shirley Hune, Asian American and Pacific Islander Women's History, NYU Press, forthcoming.
Co-editor with Linda A. Revilla , Shawn Wong, and Shirley Hune, Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives, Washington State University Press, 1993.
Co-editor with Russell Endo, Stephen H. Sumida, and Russell C. Leong,
Frontiers of Asian American Studies: Writing, Research, and Commentary,
Washington State University Press, 1989.
"Peace Empowers": The Testimony of Aki Kurose, a Woman of Color in the Pacific Northwest, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 22:3 (2001): 75-92.
"Significant Lives: Asia and Asian Americans in the U.S. West ," in Clyde Milner, ed., A New Signficance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West, Oxford University Press, 1996, 135-157
"Tsugiki, A Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State," in Karen J. Blair, ed. Women in Pacific Northwest History, Revised Edition, University of Washington Press, 2001, 284-308 .
"Within the Law: The Establishment of Filipino Leasing Rights on the Yakima Indian Reservation," in Charles McClain, ed., Asian Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities and the Law, volume 4 of Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Garland Publishing, Inc. 1994, 49-67
Contested Terrain: Japanese Americans on the Yakama Indian Reservation, book manuscript
Co-editor with Louis Fiset, (dis)Appearances: Twentieth Century Japanese
American and Japanese Canadian Experience in the Pacific Northwest,
anthology
Asian/Pacific American history, Asian/Pacific American women's history
AAS 205: ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURES
The experiences of people of color have shaped and tested the character of the U.S. its culture, institutions, and society. This course will examine the nature of American culture and society through a study of the Asian/Pacific American experience in U.S. history. The Asian/Pacific American experience reveals the dynamics of race relations and economic stratification in this country as well as the continuing process of defining America and American. The groups covered include Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans.
AAS 392/WOMEN 392: ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN
This course examines the history of Asian American and Pacific Islander
women from the nineteenth century to the present. The groups covered include
those of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast
Asian ancestry, and Pacific Islanders. In exploring the intersection of
race, class, gender, and sexuality in the lives of Asian American and
Pacific Islander women we will discuss how such forces as immigration,
labor, family, gender roles and relations, community, war, homeland politics,
and social movements
shaped and were shaped by these women.
AAS 498: JAPANESE AMERICANS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
AES 495: SENIOR THESIS
This course is the senior capstone seminar for majors in American Ethnic
Studies. The course is designed so that students may demonstrate their
mastery of the field of American Ethnic Studies as well as extend their
understanding of its dimensions. Students will have the opportunity to
research and write a major paper on a topic of their choice.