Conserving Asian American Heritage | Gail Dubrow & Kecia Fong

Conserving Asian American Heritage | Gail Dubrow & Kecia Fong

Three decades of foundational work in historic preservation to conserve Asian American cultural heritage reflect the convergence of multiple movements that have contributed to making Asian…

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Remembering and Reconnecting Erased Histories | Judy Chui-Hua Chung & Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong

Remembering and Reconnecting Erased Histories | Judy Chui-Hua Chung & Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong

Memorials for the 1871 Massacre in Los Angeles and the Driving Out of 1849–1943 On October 24, 1871, a mob of about five hundred Anglo…

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Chinatown—A Book in Verse | Debbie Wei

Chinatown—A Book in Verse | Debbie Wei

Historical preservation is not only about the built environment. It is, above all else, the memories of that built environment, including historical memory often erased by…

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Vietnamese Americana

Vietnamese Americana

Heritage and Identity-Making on South Philadelphia’s Washington Avenue | Calvin Tran Nguyen INTRODUCTION A bright yellow awning runs the entirety of a nearly two-hundred-foot-long facade…

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Expanding the Archives of Asian American and Pacific Islander Architectural History: A Call to Action | Gail Dubrow

Expanding the Archives of Asian American and Pacific Islander Architectural History: A Call to Action | Gail Dubrow

Experts on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) architectural history depend on documentation in the archives to produce new scholarly work. Yet, what we find there…

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From “Desi” History to Heritage

From “Desi” History to Heritage

The Unique Challenges of South Asian American Representation Within AAPI Heritage | Priya Jain South Asian Americans (SAAs) make up one-third of the total Asian American…

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Conservation of Korean American Architecture and Architectural Archives

Conservation of Korean American Architecture and Architectural Archives

Sujin Eom & Sean H. McPherson Korean American transnational architectural histories offer vast possibilities for new scholarship on significant contributions to the built environment of the…

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Places that Matter in Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage | Chelsea Wait

Places that Matter in Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage | Chelsea Wait

The editors of this journal issue have collaborated with Huy Pham, Executive Director of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP), to create a…

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