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Cultural Studies Book Prize Awardee

Each study in Cultural Compass—ranging from Korean nail salons in New York City to Filipino beauty pageants in southern California, from Cambodian immigrant medical practices to arranged marriages between Miao women in China and Hmong refugee men in the United States—opens up new areas of inquiry in Asian American studies, while deepening and invigorating the intellectual project of critical anthropology at a moment of renewed interest in ethnographic methodology in Asian American studies. Manalansan’s deft editorial vision organizes this burgeoning field and highlights compelling theoretical questions for both Asian American studies and anthropology. As he states in the introduction to Cultural Compass, “A critical ethnography of Asian America enables multiple strategies and readings that are productive and expressive of political struggle, cultural critiques, and social change—that is, it includes processes of home-making and the creation of new worlds for peoples.” This collection powerfully points the way for imagining these new homes and new futures for us. —SUBMITTED BY DAVID L. ENG, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY