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The author has been working as a bibliographer on topics related to Asian American studies since 2000, and has witnessed a considerable change in the landscape of Asian American studies. While essential older work has been focused primarily on more established groups, such as Chinese and Japanese Americans, as well communities in such locales as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, the field has increasingly expanded to include publications pertaining to smaller and/or more recently arrived Asian American ethnic communities. The experiences of Asian Americans in regions outside the large western and eastern urban centers in the United States have also begun to receive some attention. In addition,
certain scholars have recently taken new approaches to studying Asian American history as well as to understanding the "Asian American movement," which is usually defined as having emerged as a unique entity in the mid-twentieth century. The focus of this essay is contemporary literature in Asian American studies, with an emphasis on publications from the past fifteen years. To go into detail on resources related to individual Asian American ethnic groups is beyond the scope of the current article, though a few notable sources published in recent years pertaining to individual ethnic communities will be covered. The essay has been organized with descriptions of resources in different thematic areas, including foundational works and studies of contemporary issues in Asian American studies, and concludes with important scholarly journals in the field as well as reference works and Internet sources.
Foundational Works
A FEW WORKS MAY BE PARTICULARLY suggested for instructors, students, or others attempting to acquire an introductory overview of the field of Asian American studies through the reading of a range of essays covering key issues and different periods of the disciplines development. Editors Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen s updated Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader provides a very useful perspective on the range of Asian American studies scholarship from early classic works, seminal pieces published over the history of the field, and articles that cover important core pedagogical issues and themes, as well as emerging concerns of scholars in recent years. Individual essays focus on key theoretical concerns and the experiences of a variety of Asian American ethnic groups....