Despite critiques of critical pedagogy's limitations on everything from how teachers and
students are imagined (Lee, Trainor, Brannon, Janangelo, R. Miller, Lu) to how critical …

We all want peace and economic and physical security.[...] This was vividly brought home to
me six months ago when 1 visited a large water and sanitation project [.][...][1] went from one …

In his semiautobiographical novel America Is in the Heart (1943), Carlos Bulosan unearths a
strange and complex link between American empire and the institution of pet-keeping. This …

Institutional systems steeped in colonialist and essentializing language (and practice)
produce narratives of displacement that are reductionist, rendering the displaced as one …

Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive
discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript …

A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to
the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders …

The belief that hard work can lead to advancement in a society stands as a key motivation
for migrating. The literature on migration, however, has viewed meritocratic attitudes in a …

In 1953, Jade Snow Wong's autobiographical novel Fifth Chinese Daughter was translated
by the US government to fight Communism in Southeast Asia. Wong herself was sent …

This chapter focuses on the range of persuasive strategies used to perform Asian and Asian
American identity and challenge assumptions about Asian uses of language. The racial …

This dissertation explores how literary translators mediated cultural diplomacy between the
US and China during the Cold War period. Focusing on best-selling bilingual authors Lin …