A WORD FROM YOUR CO-SPONSOR
First of all, I think a major disclaimer/disclosure is in order here. Junichi decided to assign the new book, Total Chaos as the inaugural tome for "Poplicks Book Club" but he failed to mention (or possibly didn't realize): I have an essay in it. That should have been noted upfront since I don't want it to look like we (Poplicks) are trying to get people to buy a book that, indirectly, benefits one of us without it being very clear that we have a connection to it.
(Just to note: I got paid a flat fee so even this book sold more than The DaVinci Code, I don't get a royalty check or anything).
In any case, since we're on the topic of books and what not, I did want to mention that I have an essay in another book, this one academic: NYU Press' AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen. I have an essay in there about hip-hop and Asian American/African American relations, part of which was actually inspired by events on this very blog.
I also will have another essay, also in an academic tome, also on race and Asian Americans, appearing in the forthcoming Duke University Press anthology, Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited by Thuy Tu and my former Berkeley classmate Mimi Nguyen (apparently, books with "Encounters" in their title is in vogue right now).
Last, but not least, I have a book review that appears in the new online academic journal, run out of USC's Annenberg School, the International Journal of Communication. It's a review of Hye Seung Chung's new book, a "critical biography" of actor Philip Ahn entitled, Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.
I'm not presuming that a ton of folks have an interest in my academic writing but given that it's a large part of what I actually do, career-wise, it seemed apropos to at least share it. At some point, I'll create a separate site that simply lists my academic writing (as opposed to popular journalism/criticsm).
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