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PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

bOOKS

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater

Dorinne Kondo (1997)

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet

Minh-Ha T. Pham (2015)

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (2010)

Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir

Pang-Mei Chang (1997)

Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown's Most Stylish Seniors

Andria Lo and Valerie Luu (2020)

Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture

Vanita Reddy (2016)

Fashion Forecasts

Yumi Sakugawa (2018)

Flair: Fashion Collected by Tina Chow

Richard Martin, Harold Koda, Tina Chow, The Museum at FIT (1992)

Anne Anlin Cheng (2019)

RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang (2022)

Sweatshop Slaves: Asian Americans in the Garment Industry

Edited by Kent Wong and Julie Monroe (2006)

magazines

Banana Magazine

Densho Digital Repository

articles

Asian American Fashion History Guide

Asian Fashion Archive

4 Asian Designers Celebrating their Identity through Fashion

Ronald Kahihikolo, Office (2021

The All-American

Andrew Kung, FAR-NEAR (2019)

The Asian-American Fashion Designers

Thessaly La Force, New York Times (2020)

Asian Chic

Thuy Linh Tu, The Margins (2012)

Designer’s Choice: A Conversation with Mary Ping

Christina Moon, The Margins (2013)

Designers Share the Realities of Fashion and the AAPI Experience

Kellie Ell, WWD (2021)

Front Row with Chinese American Designers at MoCA

Chiu-Ti Jansen, Sotheby's (2013)

Goodbye Kitty

Alec Luu, Far-Near (2022)

Here’s What You Get Wrong When You Culturally Appropriate Asian Fashion

Brittany Wong, Huffington Post (2019)

The Honor of Being Us

Eda Yu, Paper Magazine (2021)

How Abercrombie’s Racist T-shirts Motivated a Generation of Asian Americans

Regina Kim, Netflix (2022)

How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History

huiying b. chan, The Margins (2019)

How I Learned to Embrace My Freckles and My Asian American Identity

Julie Tong, Vogue (2022)

How Fashion Can Relieve Us From the Burden of Visibility

Anne Cheng (2021)

How Jade Jewelry Became a Symbol of Hope

Diana Tsui, Harper's Bazaar (2022)

How Street Culture Shaped Asian- American Identity

Jian Deleon, High Snobiety

In Fashion We Are Never The Main Cast

Prabal Gurung, British Vogue (2021)

Influencers Take to Social Media to Stand Against Asian Hate Crimes in the US

Stephy Chung, CNN (2021)

Is The 'Fox Eye' Makeup Trend Racist Toward Asians?

Brittany Wong, Huffington Post (2020)

The Maintenance and Preservation of Life

Christina Moon, Vestoj

A Makeover for Chinatown’s Garment Industry

Evelyn Chao, The Margins (2014)

The Menswear Label Reframing Asian Identity and Masculinity

Mario Abad, Paper

Paisley power suits and Qipao crop tops: Asian Americans create new style trends with blended identities

Brahmjot Kaur, NBC (2023)

“Unbound” Unfastens Asian American Identity From the Western Gaze

Michael Beckert, W (2021)

Why I’m No Longer Staying Silent About Anti-Asian Racism

Sophia Li, British Vogue (2021)

Young Asian Americans in Seattle Combat Hate, Reclaim Cultural Pride with Traditional Fashion

Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times (2021)

Rituals of Style: An Interview with Yumi Sakugawa

Jean Chen Ho, The Margins (2018)

Young Sarees by Word of Mouth

Thanu Yakupitiyage, The Margins (2016)

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Asian American Resource Page

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Header image: Six members of Pacific Asian American Women Writers West (PAAWWW) in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980

Photographer: Gary Friedman

Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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