AAAS Book Awards
Book Award Nomination Guidelines
Book Award Nomination Application
2008 (Chicago)
Awards given for books published in 2006
Cultural Studies Award
Allan Punzalan Isaac
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University of Minnesota Press)
Honorable Mention
Grace Hong
Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color, Feminism, and the Culture of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press)
Poetry/Prose Awards
Patrick Rosal
My American Kundiman (Persea Books)
James Janko
Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)
Social Science Award
Monisha Das Gupta
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States (Duke University Press)
History Award
Moon-Ho Jung
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Linda Espana-Maram
Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s (Columbia University Press)
Honorable Mention:
Yuji Ichioka (eds. Gordon Chang and Eiichiro Azuma)
Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford University Press)
2007 (New York)
Awards given for books published in 2005
Cultural Studies Award
Colleen Lye
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton University Press)
Poetry/Prose Awards
Victoria Chang
Circle: Poems (Southern Illinois University Press)
Chieh Chieng
A Long Stay in a Distant Land (Bloomsbury)
Honorable Mention: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Bodies in Motion: Stories (Harper Collins)
Social Science Award
Lok Siu
Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford University Press)
History Award
Eiichiro Azuma
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press)
Mary Ting Yi Lui,
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder,
Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century NYC (Princeton University Press)
Honorable Mention: K. Scott Wong, Americans First (Harvard University Press)
2006 (Atlanta)
Awards given for books published in 2004
Cultural Studies Award
Rajini Srikanth
The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America (Temple University Press)
Poetry/Prose Award
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press)
Aimee Phan
We Shall Never Meet (St. Martin’s Press/Picador)
Honorable mentions: Ishle Yi Park, The Temperature of this Water (Kaya Press) , Gary Pak, Children of a Fireland (University of Hawai'i Press)
Special Citation: Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki, Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds (The Feminist Press at the City University of New York)
Social Science Award
Andrea Louie,
Chineseness Across Borders (Duke University Press)
Honorable Mentions: Linda Trinh Võ, Mobilizing an Asian American Community (Temple University Press), Sharmila Rudrappa, Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship (Rutgers University Press)
History Award
Mae Ngai,
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of America (Princeton University Press)
Sucheng Chan,
Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States (University of Illinois Press)
Honorable Mention: Sharon Delmendo, The Star-Entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines (Rutgers University Press)
2005 (Los Angeles)
Awards given for books published in 2003
Social Science Award
Yen Le Espiritu
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (University of California Press)
Poetry/Prose Award
Linh Dinh
All Around What Empties Out
(Tinfish Press)
Monique Truong
The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin)
History Award
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press)
Erika Lee
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (University of North Carolina Press)
Cultural Studies Award
Elaine Kim, Margo Machida, Sharon Mizota
Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press)
2004 (Boston)
Awards given for books published in 2002
History Award
Lon Kurashige
Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 (University of California Press)
Xiaojian Zhao
Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 (Rutgers University Press)
Cultural Studies Award
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (Duke University Press)
Social Science Award
Joshua H. Roth
Brokered Homeland (Cornell University Press)
2003 (San Francisco)
Social Science Award
Viranjini P. Munasinghe
Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad (Cornell University Press)
Cultural Studies Award
Anthony Lee
Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (University of California Press)
History Award
Nayan Shah
Contagious Divide: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (University of California Press)
Special Award for Most Outstanding Reference Tool on Asian American History
Gary Y. Okihiro
The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (Columbia University Press, 2001)
Prose Award
Brian Ascalon Roley
American Son (W. W. Norton Publishing)
2002 (Salt Lake City)
Cultural Studies Award
Manalansan, Martin.
Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press)
History Award
Hsu, Madeline.
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home (Stanford University Press)
Poetry/Prose Award
Lee, Priscilla.
Wishbone (Heyday Books -- Roundhouse Press)
Louie, David Wong.
The Barbarians are Coming (The Berkeley Publishing Group)
2001 (Toronto)
History and Social Science Award
K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan (eds.)
Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era (Temple University Press, 1998)
John Kuo Wei Tchen
New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Poetry/Prose Award
Frank Chin
Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays (University of Hawaii Press, 1998)
Cultural Studies Award
Aihwa Ong
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality (Duke University Press, 1999)
David Eng and Alice Hom (eds.)
Q & A: Queer and Asian American (Temple University Press, 1998)
2000 (Scottsdale)
No Book Awards Given.
1999 (Philadelphia)
No Book Awards Given.
1998 (Honolulu)
History and Social Science Award
Kyeyoung Park
The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Snall Business in New York City.
Fiction Award -- Rescinded.
Lois Ann Yamanaka
Blu's Hanging.
Cultural Studies and Literary Award
Dorinne, Kondo
About Face
Poetry Award
Roy K. Kiyooka
Pacific Windows: Collected Poems.
1997 (Seattle)
Pyong Gap Min
Caught in the Middle.
1996 (Washington, D.C.)
History Award
Judy Yung
Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (University of California Press, 1995)
Special Award
Mary Kimoto Tomita
Dear Miye: Letters Home From Japan, 1939 - 1946 (Stanford University Press, 1995)
Cultural Studies Award
Annette White-Parks
Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography (University of Illinois Press, 1995)
Literature Award
Sigrid Nunez
A Feather on the Breath of God (Harper Collins Publishers, 1995)
1995 (Oakland)
Gina Marchetti
Romance and the "Yellow Peril" (University of California Press, 1994)
Cris Friday
Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870 - 1942 (Temple University Press, 1994)
Wakako Yamauchi
Songs My Mother Taught Me (The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994)
Timothy Fong
The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (Temple University Press, 1994)
1995 (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre (Bamboo Ridge Press)
Barbara Kawakami
Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press)
Faye Myenne Ng
Bone (Hyperion Press)
Yen Le Espiritu
Asian American Panethnicity (Temple University Press)
1993 (Ithaca, New York)
Kimiko Hahn
Earshot (Hanging Loose Press)
Dana Takagi
Retreat From Race: Asian Admissions and Racial Politics (Rutgers University Press, 1992)
Renqiu Yu
To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (Temple University Press, 1992)
Epifanio San Juan Jr.
Racial Formations - Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States (Humanities Press, 1992)
Gary Pak
The Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories (Bamboo Ridge, 1992)
1992 (San Jose, California)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Cane Fires, The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 (Temple University Press, 1991)
Darrell H. Lum
Pass On, No Pass Back! (Bamboo Ridge Press, 1991)
Stephen S. Fugita and David J. O'Brien
Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community (University of Washington Press, 1991)
Stephen H. Sumida
And the View From the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai'i (University of Washington Press, 1991)
1991 (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters (Penguin Books, 1990)
Mary Paik Lee
Quiet Odyssey, A Pioneer Korean Woman in America (University of Washington Press, 1990)
1990 (Santa Barbara, California)
Asian Women United of California (ed.), Making Waves: Writing By and About Asian American Women.
Ronald Takaki
Strangers From a Different Shore, A History of Asian Americans (Penguin Books, 1989)
James M. Freeman
Hearts of Sorrow, Vietnamese-American Lives (Stanford University Press, 1989)
1989 (Hunter College, New York)
Yuji Ichioka
The Issei, The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (The Free Press, 1988)
Hisaye, Yamamoto
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Women of Color Press, 1988)
1988 (Pullman, Washington)
Sucheng Chan
This Bitter Sweet Soil, The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 (University of California Press, 1986)
1987 (San Francisco, California)
Wing Tek Lum
Expounding the Doubtful Points (Bamboo Ridge Press, 1987)
Edward D. Beechert
Working in Hawaii, A Labor History (University of Hawaii Press, 1985)
Timothy J. Lukes and Gary Y. Okihiro.
Japanese Legacy, Farming and Community Life in California's Santa Clara Valley (California History Center, De Anza College, 1985)
Sandy Lydon
Chinese Gold, The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region (Capitola Book Company, 1985)