Asian Pacific American Caucus

Asian American Contemporary Politics: Selected Readings*

*Prepared in July 2000 (and revised April 2003) by Pei-te Lien for the Asian Pacific American Caucus at APSA.  Updated in January 2006 by Andrew Aoki.  This bibliography is far from exhaustive. The purpose is to facilitate teaching and research in the field of Asian American politics by providing an overview of published books and journal articles that may represent the diversity and complexity in approaching the subject matter.

Please send additions, corrections, and comments to <aoki@augsburg.edu>.

APA Publication Update 9-9-05

Recent Books:

Aarim-Heriot, Najia. 2003. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Chang, Michael. 2004. Racial Politics in An Era of Transnational Citizenship: The 1996 “Asian Donorgate” Controversy in Perspective. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Chi, Tsung. 2005. East Asian Americans and Political Participation. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio.

Koehn, Peter H., and Xiao-huang Yin. Eds. 2002. The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Lai, Him Mark. 2004. Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira. 

Lee, Erika. 2003. At America's Gates : Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Levitt, Peggy, and Mary Waters. Eds. 2002.  The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Lien, Pei-te, M. Margaret Conway, Janelle Wong. 2004. The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community. New York and London: Routledge.

Ma, Laurence, and Carolyn Cartier. Eds. 2003. The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Nakanishi, Don, and James Lai. Eds. 2003. Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick.  2005.  Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation.  
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Wong, Janelle. 2006.  Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions.  University of Michigan Press.

Wu, Frank. 2002. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White.  New York: Basic Books.

Journal Articles:

Cho, Wendy K. Tam. 2003. “Contagion Effects and Ethnic Contribution Networks.” American Journal of Political Science 47, 2 (April): 368-387.

Cho, Wendy K. Tam, and Suneet P. Lad. 2004. “Subcontinental Divide: Asian Indians and Asian American Politics.” American Politics Research 32: 239-263.

Jones-Correa, Michael.  2005. "Language Provisions Under the Voting Rights Act: How Effective Are They?" Social Science Quarterly 86,3 (September): 549-564.

Gaines, Brian J. and Wendy K. Tam Cho. 2004. “On California's 1920 Alien Land Law: The Psychology and Economics of Discrimination.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4, 3 (Fall): 
271-293.

Green, Donald, Dara Strolovitch, and Janelle Wong. 1998. “Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Hate Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 104: 2. 372-403.

Lien, Pei-te. 2004. “Asian Americans and Voting Participation: Comparing Racial and Ethnic Differences in Recent U.S. Elections.”  International Migration Review 38,2 (Summer): 493-517.
_____. 2004. “Behind the Numbers: Talking Politics with Foreign-Born Chinese Americans.” International Migration 42(2): 87-112. 
_____. 2003. “Comparing the Voting Participation of Chinese to Other Asian Americans in U.S. Elections.”  Chinese America: History and Perspectives 17: 1-13.
_____. 2002. “The Participation of Asian Americans in U.S. Elections: Comparing Elite and Mass Patterns in Hawaii and Mainland States.” UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8(1): 55-99.

Lien, Pei-te, M. Margaret Conway, and Janelle Wong. 2003. “The Contours and Sources of Ethnic Identity Choices among Asian Americans.” Social Science Quarterly 84 (2): 461-481.

Wong, Janelle. 2000. “The Effects of Age and Political Exposure on the Development of Party Identification among Asian American and Latino Immigrants in the U.S.” Political Behavior 22 (4): 341-371.
_____. 2004. “Getting Out the Vote among Asian Pacific Americans:  The Effects of Phone Canvassing.” AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice, and Community 2:2  (Summer/Fall)
_____. 2005. "Mobilizing Asian American Voters: A Field Experiment."  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 601: 102-114.

Wong, Janelle, Pei-te Lien, and M. Margaret Conway. 2005. “Group-Based Resources and Political Participation among Asian Americans.” American Politics Research 33: 545-576.

Book Chapters:

Bedolla, Lisa García, Katherine Tate, and Janelle Wong.  2005.  “Indelible Effects: The Impact of Women of Color in the U.S. Congress.”  In Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Women and Elective Office Past, Present and Future 2nd Edition.  Oxford University Press.

Espiritu, Yen Le. 2004. “Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities.” Pp. 217-234 in Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. New York: Russell Sage.

Lie, John. 2004. “The Black-Asian Conflict?” Pp. 301-314 in Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. New York: Russell Sage.

Lien, Pei-te. 2005. “Asian American Voters: A Challenging Diversity.” Pp. 143-151 in The Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, edited by the Journal of Black Issues in Higher Education.  New York: John Wiley & Sons. 

-----. 2004. “Religion and Political Adaptation Among Asian Americans: An Empirical Assessment From the Pilot National Asian American Political Survey.” Pp. 263-86 in Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang eds., Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries. New York: New York University Press.

-----. 2004. “The Religious Demography and Asian American Boundary Crossing.” With Tony Carnes. Pp. 38-54 in Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang eds., Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries. New York: New York University Press. (2004) (lead author)

Wong, Janelle. 2003. “Gender and Political Participation among Asian Americans.” In James Lai and Don Nakanishi, eds. Asian American Politics. Rowman and Littlefield.

Policy Reports:
Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, and Mark Baldassare.  2004.  The Ties that Bind: Changing Demographics and Civic Engagement in California.  San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.

Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, and Paul Lewis.  2005.  Immigrants and Local Governance: The View from City Hall.  San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.

Books: 

Aguilar-San Juan, Karin. Ed. 1994. The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s. Boston, MA: South End Press.

Ancheta, Angelo N. 1998. Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Bobo, Lawrence D., et. al. Eds. 2000. Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Chang, Gordon. Ed. 2001. Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, and Prospects  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.  

Chang, Gordon. Ed. 2000. Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Dirlik, Arif. Ed. 1998. What is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea, 2nd Ed. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield Publishers.

Espiritu, Yen L. 1992. Asian American Panethnicity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

-----. 1997. Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Freedman, Amy. 2000.Political Participation and Ethnic Minorities: Chinese Overseas in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States.  New York: Routledge.

Hatamiya, Leslie T. 1993. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Hing, Bill Ong, and Ronald Lee. Eds. 1996. The State of Asian Pacific America: Reframing the Immigration Debate: A Public Policy Report. LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Horton, John. 1995. The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Hu-deHart, Evelyn. Ed. 1999. Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Jo, Yung-hwan. Ed. 1980. Political Participation of Asian Americans: Problems and Strategies. Chicago: Pacific/Asian American Mental Health Research Center.

Koehn, Peter H., and Xiao-huang Yin. Eds. 2002. The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Kim, Claire Jean. 2000.  Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Lai, Eric, and Dennis Arguelles. Eds. 2003.  The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century.  San Francisco and Los Angeles: Asianweek and UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press.

Lai, James, and Don Nakanishi. Eds. 2001. The National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac, 2001-02.  Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Lien, Pei-te. 2001. The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Lien, Pei-te. 1997. The Political Participation of Asian Americans: Voting Behavior in Southern California. New York: Garland Publishing.

Lopez-Garza, Marta, and David R. Diaz. Eds. 2001. Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Louie, Steve, and Glenn Omatsu. Eds. 2001. Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.  More information

Lowe, Lisa. 1996. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Maki, Mitchell T., Harry H. R. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold. 1999. Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Nakanishi, Don, and James Lai. Eds. 2003. Asian Pacific Americans and American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 

Nakanishi, Don and James Lai. 1998. National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac 1998-99. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

-----. 2000. National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac 2000-01. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

O'Connor, Alice, Chris Tilly, Lawrence D. Bobo. Eds. 2001. Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States, 2nd Ed. New York: Routledge.

Ong, Paul. Ed. 2000. Transforming Race Relations. LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Ong, Paul. Ed. 1999.  Impacts of Affirmative Action : Policies and Consequences in California. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Ong, Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng. Eds. 1994. The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Portes, Alejandro, and Ruben Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley and London: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation.

Rumbaut, Ruben, and Alejandro Portes. Eds. 2001. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.  Berkeley and London: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation.

Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni, Rajini Srikanth, and Leny M. Strobel. Eds. 1999. Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Saito, Leland. 1998. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Schultz, Jeffrey D., Andrew Aoki, Kerry L Haynie, and Anne McCulluch. Eds. 1999. The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics. Oryx Press, The Encyclopedia of American Politics Series.

Spickard, Paul, Joanne Rondilla, and Debbie Hippolite Wright. Eds. 2002. Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Takagi, Dana. 1992. The Retreat From Race : Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Wei, William. 1993. The Asian American Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Wu, Frank. 2001. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White.  New York: Basic Books.

Yvette Alex-Assensoh and Lawrence Hanks. Eds. 2000. Black and Multiracial Politics in America. New York: New York University Press.

Asian American History and Community: Selected Readings

Aarim-Heriot, Najia. 2003. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Almaguer, Tomas. 1994. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Asian Women United of California. Ed. 1989. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women. Boston: Beacon Press.

Chan, Sucheng. 1991a. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Boston: Twayne Publishers.

-----. 1991b. Asian Californians. San Francisco: MTL/Boyd & Fraser.

-----. 1991c.Ed. Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Cheng, Lucie and Edna Bonacich. Eds. 1984. Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers In The United States Before World War II. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Cordova, Fred. 1983. Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans. Seattle: Demonstration Project for Asian Americans.

Daniels, Roger. 1988. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Fong, Timothy P. 1998. The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Friday, Chris. 1994. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Gee, Emma. Ed. 1976. Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Gyory, Andrew. 1998. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Helweg, Arthur, and Usha Helweg. 1990. An Immigrant Success Story: East Indians in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hing, Bill Ong. 1993. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy 1850-1990. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Hsu, Madeline. 2000. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Ichioka, Yuji.1988. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924. New York: The Free Press.

Jensen, Joan M. 1988. Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigration in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kim, Hyung-chan. 1994. A Legal History of Asian Americans, 1790-1990. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Kitano, Harry L., and Roger Daniels. 1995. Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities, 2nd Ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Lee, Robert G.  1999. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Liu, Eric. 1998. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker. New York: Random House.

Lott, Juanita T. 1997. Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

McClain, Charles. 1994. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Min, Pyong Gap. Ed. 1995. Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Okihiro, Gary Y. 1994. Margins and Mainstream. Seattle:University of Washington Press.

Pido, Antonio J. A. 1986. The Pilipinos in America: Macro/Micro Dimensions of Immigration and Integration. New York: Center for Migration Studies.

Routledge, Paul James. 1992. The Vietnamese Experience in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Saxton, Alexander. 1971. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Shankar, Lavina, and Rajini Srikanth. Eds. 1998. A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Takaki, Ronald. 1989. Strangers from a Different Shore. Boston: Little, Brown.

Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. 1986. The Chinese Experience in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Tsuchida, Nobuya. Eds. 1982. Asian and Pacific American Experiences: Women's Perspectives. Minneapolis: Asian/Pacific American Learning Resource Center.

Wang, Guanhua. 2001. In Search of Justice: The 1905-1906 Chinese Anti-American Boycott. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Williams-Leon, Teresa, and Cynthia Nakashima. 2001. The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Yung, Judy. 1995. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yu, Renqiu. 1992. To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Yvette Alex-Assensoh and Lawrence Hanks. Eds. 2000. Black and Multiracial Politics in America.  New York: New York University Press.

Zhao, Xiaojian. 2002. Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Zhou, Min, and James V. Gatewood. Eds. 2000. Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. New York: New York University Press.

Zia, Helen. 2000. Asian American Dreams.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Journal Articles (selected)

Aoki, Andrew, and Don Nakanishi. Eds. 2001. “Symposium on Asian Pacific American Politics.”  PS: Political Science and Politics 34:3.

Click here for the Table of Contents of this precedent-setting symposium.  To read the actual articles, you need to be a member of the APSA.

Alozie, Nicholas O. 1992. "The Election of Asians to City Councils." Social Science Quarterly 73: 90-99.

Alozie, Nicholas, James Simon, and Bruce Merrill. 2003. “Gender and Political Orientation in Childhood.” Social Science Journal 40(1): 1-18.

Cain, Bruce E., Roderick Kiewiet, and Carole Uhlaner. 1991. "The Acquisition of Partisanship Among Latinos and Asian Americans." American Journal of Political Science 35: 390-422.

Cho, Wendy K. Tam. 2003. “Contagion Effects and Ethnic Contribution Networks.” American Journal of Political Science 47 (2): 368–387.

---------.  2002. “Tapping Motives and Dynamics Behind Campaign Contributions: Insights From the Asian American Case.” American Politics Research 30(4):347-383.

--------. 2001. “Foreshadowing Strategic Pan-Ethnic Politics: Asian American Campaign Finance Activity in Varying Multicultural Contexts.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 1(3): 273-294.

-------. 1995. "Asians--A Monolithic Voting Bloc?" Political Behavior 17:223-249.

--------. 1999. "Naturalization, Socialization, and Participation: Immigrants and (Non-) Voting." Journal of Politics 61:1140-55.

Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling. 1987. "The Development of Feminist Consciousness Among Asian American Women." Gender and Society I(3): 284-99.

Friday, Chris. 1995. "Asian American Labor and Historical Interpretation." Labor History 36:524-546.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1985. "Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression." Review of Radical Political Economics 17:86-108.

Hajnal, Zoltan L., Elisabeth R.Gerber, and Hugh Louch. 2002. “Minorities and Direct Legislation: Evidence from California Ballot Proposition Elections”.  Journal of Politics 64(1): 154-173.

Kim, Claire. 2001. “Playing the Racial Trump Card: Asian Americans in Contemporary U.S. Politics.” Amerasia Journal 26(3): 35-65.

--------- . 1999. "The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans." Politics and Society 27: 105-38.

Lien, Pei-te. 2002. “Public Resistance to Electing Asian Americans in Southern California,” Journal of Asian American Studies 5(1): 51-72.

------------. 1994. "Ethnicity and Political Participation: A Comparison Between Asian and Mexican Americans." Political Behavior 16:237-264.

-----. 1998. "Does the Gender Gap in Political Attitudes and Behavior Vary Across Racial Groups? Comparing Asians to Whites, Blacks, and Latinos." Political Research Quarterly, 51: 869-894.

Lien, Pei-te, and Tony Affigne. 2002. “Race, Politics, and Asian Peoples of the Americas: Lessons and Theoretical Implications.” Amerasia Journal 28 (2):1-26.

Lien, Pei-te, M. Margaret Conway, and Janelle Wong. 2003.  “The Contours and Sources of Ethnic Identity Choices Among Asian Americans.” Social Science Quarterly 84 (2): 461-481. 

Nakanishi, Don T. 1986. "Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research." Amerasia Journal 12(2):1-27.

-----. 1993. "Surviving Democracy's 'Mistake.'" Amerasia Journal 19(1): 7-35.

Nash, Phil Tajitsu. 2003. “Reaching Out to Asian Americans and Latinos.”  Campaigns & Elections 24(2): 40-42.

Park, Edward J. W. 1998. "Competing Visions: Political Formation of Korean Americans in Los Angeles, 1992-97." Amerasia Journal 24(1): 41-57.

----- and John S. W. Park. 1999. "A New American Dilemma: Asian Americans and Latinos in Race Theorizing." Journal of Asian American Studies 2: 289-309.

Pelissero, John P., Timothy Krebs, and Shannon Jenkins. 2000. “Asian Americans, Political Organizations, and Participation in Chicago Electoral Precincts.” Urban Affairs Review 35: 750-769.

Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick and Thomas J. Espenshade.  "Immigrant Incorporation and Political Participation in the United States."  International Migration Review 35:3, 870-909.

Srikanth, Rajini. 2000. "Identity and Admission into the Political Game: The Indian American Community Signs Up." Amerasia Journal 25(3): 59-80.

UCLA School of Law. 2002. UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8(1).  The entire volume is on APA mainstream electoral and grassroots community politics.

Uhlaner, Carole J., Bruce E. Cain, and D. Roderick Kiewiet. 1989. "Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in the 1980s." Political Behavior 11:195-232.

Umemoto, Karen. 1989. "'On Strike!' San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-69: The Roots of Asian American Studies." Amerasia Journal 15 (1):3-41.

Wang, Ling-chi. 1998. "Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance Scandal." Amerasia Journal 24(1):1-21.

Wong, Janelle. 2001. "The Effects of Age and Political Exposure on the Development of Party Identification among Asian American and Latino Immigrants in the U.S." Political Behavior.