As the editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (JSAAEA)– http://www.jsaaea.org –I want to take advantage of my personal blog to highlight the past few publications in our journal.
In addition to publishing traditional academic research, we have been very interested in publishing creative works by native Southeast Asian Americans. I’m very excited that we have finally received and have been able to publish some submissions in this area!
Bryan Thao Worra is an established Laotian American poet whose poetry has been published widely. I was fortunte to run into Bryan at a Laotian National conference which just happened to be at Arizona State University at the same time I was there for the Linguistic Minority Research Conference. He was very excited to learn of JSSAEA, and subsequently submitted four excellent poems to us: Snakehead Fish; Departures; Capitol; and Preparations for Southeast Asia. You can read his poems at http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/22/15.
We were very excited to recieve a submission from Sumeia Williams, a Vietnamese American poet whose work has also been published widely. Sumeia was born in Vietnam, and adopted by an American family. Her powerful poem depicts her deep thoughts and feelings on her identity. You can read Sumeia’s poem, The Feast of First Mourning, at http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/29/17
Other recent publications include a poem written by a young Thai student who lived in American shortly while his mother was in graduate school, and a review of Stacey Lee’s excellent book on Hmong American high school students, Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth. This book was reviewed by one of my outstanding doctoral students, Chang Pu. Her review can be read at http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/17/18
We have several manuscripts and a couple of important special issues in the works. We are always looking for more book reviews, creative works, and academic article submissions. If you or anyone you know does work related to Southeast Asian American communities and issues, please see (or have them see) www.jssaea.org for current publications and submission guidelines!