Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (3rd Edition) in which she wrote the foreword for. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong and followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

WHEN: Thursday, September 24, 2020 | 2 PM PST

Tara Fickle is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her first book, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (NYU Press), examines how games and game theory have shaped American racial typologies and U.S.-Asian relations from the 19th century onwards. She recently discussed her book project on the academic podcast Imagine Otherwise.

Andrew Way Leong is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley's English department. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre, gendered embodiment, and generational time. He is the translator of Lament in the Night (Kaya Press 2012) and author of Roots of the Issei: Exploring Japanese American Newspapers. He is also completing a manuscript entitled A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature.

Purchase books from the authors here:

Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2129/Aiiieeeee%21%3A_An_Anthology_of_Asian_American_Writers_%283rd_ed%29%29.html

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities : https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2525/Race_Card%3A_From_Gaming_Technologies_to_Model_Minorities_.html

Lament in the Night: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1106/Lament_in_the_Night_.html

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