In the face of unprecedented heat waves, annual 500-year storms, grossly accelerated species extinction, and the capital extraction that produces the same, what can Asian American Studies offer? Within Asian American Studies, we are seeing burgeoning scholarship that is pushing our understanding of the environment and the possibilities of a just future. Key terms such as environmental racism, restorative environmental justice, climate migration, racial ecologies, and environmental privilege are increasingly present in the lexicon of Asian American Studies.

This roundtable brings together the contributors to the JAAS special issue 'Environmental Entanglements in Asian America' to discuss their work. Together, they grapple with the environmental entanglements—past and present—of diasporic Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities, asking what Asian American Studies has done and can do to expand, deepen, collaborate with, and critique ongoing theoretical and engaged environmental in/justice work.