Reading List – December 2025 Our monthly newsletter shares notices of new book publications that our members email us about. If you or someone whose permission you have has had a book published within the past 12 months, please share the title, subject or (inter)disciplinary area(s), and link in this form, and we will share it with members. The March Fong Eu Story: An Authorized Biography of an Unauthorized Woman | Tim Vandehey, Caren Daniels-MeadeMarch Fong Eu was a long-serving politician from California. She served as California’s Secretary of State for nearly twenty years, was a strong advocate for voting rights and broke a number of barriers including being the first Asian American woman elected to a state legislature, the first woman elected as California Secretary of State, and the first Asian-American elected to a state constitutional office. Asian Americans in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: The Long Overdue Voice | Edited byKhánh Lê, Zhongfeng Tian, Alisha Nguyen, Trish Morita-MullaneyThis book centers and amplifies the voices and complex lived experiences of Asian Americans in bilingual education. Drawing from the fields of bilingual education and ethnic studies, the chapters discuss language ideologies, anti-racist pedagogies, language loss and teacher and student experiences to explore how multilingualism is experienced distinctly by Asian Americans. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time | Mai WangHow do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature? The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time is the first scholarly investigation into the formal and archival links between canonical authors such as Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and their twentieth-century Asian American counterparts. It investigates how a transnational group of authors—Carlos Bulosan, Younghill Kang, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eileen Chang—inherit the American Renaissance as both a racial allegory and a supplier of literary forms such as the romance and the jeremiad.
