Journal of Asian American Studies

Journal of Asian American Studies
Title	Journal of Asian American Studies
Discipline	Asian American studies
Country	United States
History	1997–present
Frequency	Quarterly

Journal of Asian American Studies is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes research on the histories, cultures, politics, and social experiences of Asian Americans, diasporic communities, and transnational networks linking United States, China, Japan, Korea, India, Philippines. It engages scholarship across intersections that include race, migration, identity, citizenship, law, labor, health, and cultural production, positioning work alongside studies of communities such as Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans.

History

The journal was founded in the late 1990s amid institutional growth in ethnic studies programs at universities such as Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University, and linked professional organizations including the Association for Asian American Studies, Modern Language Association, American Historical Association, American Sociological Association, and American Studies Association. Early editorial leadership featured scholars connected to conferences at venues like Smithsonian Institution, Asia Society, New York University, University of Chicago, and drew on intellectual traditions from figures associated with works by Yuji Ichioka, Ronald Takaki, Min Zhou, Ethnic Studies Movement, and archives such as the Japanese American National Museum and the Chinese Historical Society of America.

Scope and Editorial Focus

The journal foregrounds interdisciplinary work connecting history, literary studies, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and public policy from scholars affiliated with institutions such as Rutgers University, State University of New York, University of Washington, University of California, Irvine, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania. Topics include immigration law decisions like Immigration Act of 1924, landmark rulings such as Korematsu v. United States, labor struggles at sites like the Transcontinental Railroad, community responses to events including the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and cultural productions by artists and writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Henry Hwang, and filmmakers connected to festivals like the Sundance Film Festival and institutions like the Asian American International Film Festival.

Publication and Access

Published on a quarterly schedule, the journal has been associated with academic presses and scholarly societies rooted in cities including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and academic publishers comparable to Johns Hopkins University Press, Routledge, Duke University Press, University of California Press. Institutional subscriptions and individual memberships in organizations like the Association for Asian American Studies and university libraries at Yale University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, Columbia University facilitate access, while some issues have been included in digital platforms analogous to JSTOR, Project MUSE, and library consortia such as the HathiTrust.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic databases and citation services used by researchers at institutions like National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, and found in indexes comparable to Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and area studies databases used by centers such as the Asia-Pacific Research Center and university research libraries including Harvard-Yenching Library.

Reception and Impact

Scholars in fields linked to Asian American history and culture at departments in universities such as University of California, Santa Barbara, Brown University, Duke University, University of Texas at Austin, and policy researchers at organizations like Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies have cited the journal in debates on citizenship, redress, comparative race studies, and transnational migration. Reviews and citations appear in edited volumes from presses like Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge and in monographs by authors associated with awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program, and the National Humanities Medal.

Notable Articles and Special Issues

The journal’s special issues have focused on themes connected to historic events and scholarly debates such as wartime incarceration linked to Executive Order 9066, policy shifts following the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, activist movements tied to Third World Liberation Front, and cultural responses to incidents like the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Notable articles engage case studies of communities in places such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, New York City, and analyze legal histories involving cases like Loving v. Virginia in comparative frameworks. Contributors include scholars whose work intersects with the careers of figures like Anna May Wong, Fred Korematsu, Grace Lee Boggs, Irvine H. H. and writers connected to archives at the Bancroft Library and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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