This panel brings together three interdisciplinary scholars with books recently published within this past year on social exclusion of Asians and Asian Americans in society.

Each of the three authors will briefly talk about their new monographs, but they will share how those academic works inform their own positionality within the Ivory Tower. The authors will also do a cross-examination of each other’s work to consider how dominant images of Asian/Americans as Other shape personal and collective feelings of academic outsider-ness. The discussant will offer reflections on the three recently published books and Asian American insider-outsiderness.

This panel is significant in not only unpacking Asian marginalization, but it deconstructs what it means to be a scholar-teacher of Asian descent today with the panelists speaking to issues of being Filipina, Vietnamese, Sino-Burmese, and Korean as well as woman of color, queer, first-gen, immigrant, working class. The panel centrally aligns with this year’s theme on sustainable publics in terms of working through issues of work-life balance and identity-labor.