Office Location:听Ketchum 275
Pronouns: he / him / his
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Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan - American Culture, 2001
M.A., University of Michigan - American Culture, 1996
M.A., San Francisco State University - Ethnic Studies, 1993
B.S., Harvey Mudd College - Mathematics, 1989
Research Interests
Asian American history and studies, comparative ethnic studies, radical social movements, the 1960s and 70s, transnational culture
As an interdisciplinary cultural historian, I explore how racial identities and politics are embedded within and expressed through cultural productions. My main research concerns revolve around social and cultural movements for racial justice of the late 1960s and early 1970s. My newest book, Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee, shows how Bruce Lee鈥檚 rise to global superstardom was impelled by transnational cultural exchanges in the transpacific, a zone structured by colonialism, capitalism, and militarism. Rethinking the Asian American Movement, which is a synthesis of scholarship on the Asian American movement of the 60s and 70s, argues that the movement was inherently built upon commitments to interracial and transnational solidarities. My first book, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America, shows how the category of 鈥淎sian American,鈥� which encompasses Asians of many ethnicities in the U.S., was created by Asian American movement and thoroughly imbued with anti-racist and anti-imperialist political commitments.
Selected Publications
Books
Maeda, Daryl.听. NYU Press, 2022.
Maeda, Daryl.听. 听American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century series, Routledge, 2011.
Maeda, Daryl.听. 听Critical American Studies series, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Refereed Articles
Moses, Michele S., Daryl J. Maeda, and Christina H. Paguyo. 鈥淩acial Politics, Resentment, and Affirmative Action: Asian Americans as 鈥楳odel鈥� College Applicants.鈥� Journal of Higher Education.听 DOI:
Daryl Joji Maeda.听 鈥淣omad of the Transpacific: Bruce Lee as Method.鈥澨� American Quarterly 69, no. 3 (September 2017), 741-761.
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥�.鈥澨�American Quarterly听57, no. 4 (December 2005): 1079-1103. 听Winner of the听Constance M. Rourke Prize听by the American Studies Association for the best article published in听American Quarterly听in 2005.
Edited Collections
Arturo Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka, eds. 听. 听University Press of Colorado, 2011.
Contributions to Edited Collections
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥淒ocumenting the Third World Student Strike, the Anti-War Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives.鈥� In Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, eds. Min Song and Rajini Srikanth (Cambridge University Press, in press), 221-36.
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥淒ocumenting the Third World Student Strike, the Anti-War Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives.鈥� In听, eds. Min Song and Rajini Srikanth (Cambridge University Press, in press), 221-36.听
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥淢ovement.鈥� In听, eds. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong (New York: NYU Press, 2015), 165-168.听
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥淏efore the Birth of Asian America: Asian Americans and the New Left.鈥� In听, eds. Howard Brick and Gregory Parker (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, 2015), 301-317.
Maeda, Daryl.听鈥淭he Asian American Movement.鈥� 听In听, ed. Heather Thompson (New York: Prentice Hall, 2009).
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