Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women
Join a panel of authors featured in a new anthology for an intergenerational conversation on the voices and histories of Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American women in this contemporary period.
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About the book:
Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.
This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States.
Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women’s and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.
At this event, the authors will review the following chapters:
The Mother’s Tongue: Language, Women, and the Chamorros of Guam by Sharleen Santos-Bamba and Anne Perez Hattori
“Let Them Attack Me for Wearing the Hijab”: Islam and Identity in the Lives of Bangladeshi American Women by Nazli Kibria
“Defiant Daughters”: The Resilience and Resistance of 1.5 Generation Vietnamese American Women by Linda Trinh Vo
Stories and Visions across Generations: Khmer American Women by Shirley S. Tang, Kim Soun Ty, and Linda Thiem
Moderator:
Shirley S. Tang, UMass Boston
Shirley S. Tang, Ph.D., is Professor of Asian American Studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A national leader in developing a model of curricular innovation for digital storytelling, pedagogies of wholeness, and AANAPISI/MSI-centered knowledge production, she received the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at UMass Boston in 2016, making her the first woman of color to receive this honor in the university's history.
Speakers:
Shirley Hune, University of Washington Seattle (Editor)
Shirley Hune is both Professor Emerita of Urban Planning at UCLA and of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at the University of Washington. Her publications focus on Asian American immigration history, women's and gender studies, and Asian Pacific Americans in higher education.
Gail Nomura, University of Washington (Editor)
Gail M. Nomura is Associate Professor Emerita of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. A historian, she has researched and published numerous works on Asian American history, Asian American women, Japanese Americans, and regional studies of the Pacific Northwest.
Sharleen Santos-Bamba, University of Guam
Dr. Sharleen Santos-Bamba is the Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Guam and an associate professor of English, CHamoru Studies, and Micronesian Studies. Her research, outreach and engagement, and advocacy are rooted in Chamoru values and epistemology and she continues to search for opportunities to share Guam's history, culture, and people with the world.
Nazli Kibria, Boston University
Nazli Kibria is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences, CAS at Boston University. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of family, immigration, race, and childhood, with a focus on South Asia as well as the Asian American experience.
Linda Trinh Vo, UC Irvine
Dr. Linda Trinh Vo is a Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and co-authored Vietnamese in Orange County and co-editedAsian American Women: The “Frontiers” Reader. She was president of the Association for Asian American Studies and director of Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project.
Kim Soun Ty, UMass Boston
Kim Soun Ty is Instructor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a PhD student in the Global Inclusion and Social Development program at UMass Boston, with a research focus on intergenerational healing, health, and education in the Khmer diaspora.
Linda Thiem, Middlesex Community College
Linda Thiem is Program Specialist in the Asian American Student Advancement Program at Middlesex Community College and Instructor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.