Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader
"Full of provocation and insight, this collection productively investigates the complicated and often racialized relationships between consumer, producer, and nation. Foundational in its interdisciplinary, transnational critique of cuisine-driven multiculturalism,Eating Asian America skillfully navigates the vexed terrain of food politics."-Cathy J. Schlund-Vials,author ofWar, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work“[Manalansan] coedits the interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the ways in which eating and culinary practices reflect and reinforce class, racial, and gender inequalities among Asian-American immigrants.”-Rochester Review,"The essays themselves are readable and concise.  Each scholar...[is] successful in reaching a very large audience, from Asian American scholars to those simply interested in food histories and identities." -Christopher Patterson,The International Examiner"The work is the first collection to consider Asian American immigrant histories in relation to how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways." -NYU Research Digest,"Featuring 20 essays, this volume connects Asian food to larger social, economic, political, and historical contexts in the US....The essays in this volume not only constitute the first academic book on the topic with such comprehensiveness, but also investigate the social hierarchy that exists around race, gender, sex, class, and ethnicity."-Y. Kiuchi,CHOICE