Book/Chapters

Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith and the Academy (2021)

Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016)

Actors, Asian American (2014), in Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia

Playing 'Ghetto': Embodiments of South Central in Popular Culture (2010)

Without a Trace: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime Time Television (2007)

Performing Race, Negotiating Identity: Asian American Professional Actors in Hollywood (2004)

Reports

The Prevalence and Portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islanders across 1,300 Popular Films

TERRORISTS & TYRANTS: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Actors on Prime Time and Streaming Television (2018)

TOKENS ON THE SMALL SCREEN: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Prime Time and Streaming Television (2017). ​www.AAPIsOnTV.com

Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera, and Little Action (2005)

Setting the Stage (2006)

Articles

Surrounding Shang-Chi With Powerful Women Was Vital to the Story (9/7/21), io9

Shang-Chi's Director on Making a Marvel Movie With Asian Americans in Mind (9/6/21), io9

Shang-Chi Brings Compelling New Heroes and Awe-Inspiring Action to the MCU (8/23/21), io9

"I’m an Asian American woman in academia. Here’s what ‘The Chair’ gets right" (8/20/2021), Los Angeles Times

"Here's why Chloé Zhao's win matters for Asian women in Hollywood," (4/25/2021), CNN.

"Nancy Wang Yuen Atlanta spa shooting suspect's 'bad day' defense, and America's sexualized racism problem" (3/18/2021), NBC News

What Hollywood's treatment of 'Minari' says about the Asian American Dream (3/3/2021), NBC News

"Mulan" Shines as a Disney Live-Action Remake. But I Wanted More (9/4/2020), Cherrypicks.

Mulan Is an Epic Martial Arts Film With Social Relevance (9/3/2020), io9 Gizmodo

Anti-Asian Racism Is Taking a Mental and Emotional Toll on Me, (5/26/2020) Self Magazine

"Reimagining ‘Hollywood’ – Michelle Krusiec as Anna May Wong," (5/22/2020) Awardswatch

anti-asian hate during covid-19, (4/16/2020) Contexts

THE EFFECTS REPRESENTATION HAS ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH (3/12/2020) I Weigh

Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman? Yes, Welcome to Hollywood (11/22/19) Newsweek.

My Journey in Public Sociology (6/5/2019), Contexts

In “Always Be My Maybe,” Asian American Men Play the Heartthrobs (5/30/2019), Cherrypicks.

From “Crazy Rich Asians” to “The Farewell,” Celebrating a Year of Asian American Representation in Film (5/9/2019), CherryPicks

Does “Captain Marvel” Do Right By the Talented Gemma Chan? (3/8/2019), Cherrypicks

As an Asian-American Woman, I Saw My Trauma and Grief in “The Farewell” (2/5/2019), CherryPicks

Sandra Oh’s Golden Globe Win Made Me Feel Seen for the First Time at an Awards Show (1/7/2019), CherryPicks

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on TV (Fall 2018), Contexts

What's Different About the Men on Terrace House? They cry, emote, and care. A lot. (10/25/2018), Elle.

Despite Starring in Huge Blockbusters, Zoe Saldaña Doesn’t Earn as Much as White Actresses (8/22/2018), Remezcla

Welcome To The Summer Of Asian-American Rom Coms (7/30/2018), HuffPost

‘Fresh Off The Boat’ Expanded What Family Looks Like. Don’t Cancel It (4/26/2018), HuffPost

A Joyful Reunion: The Joy Luck Club Looks Back (10/30/2017), HuffPost

The Lost Generation: From ‘The Joy Luck Club’ To ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ (6/24/2017), HuffPost

Star Trek Discovery: Boldly Representing Women Of Color (9/25/2017), HuffPost

Representation Matters: Super Asian Americans (7/28/2017), Nerds of Color

Ed Skrein Leaving ‘Hellboy’ to Avoid Whitewashing Was the Right Thing to Do (8/30/2017), Self

Kudos to Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park for Walking Away From ‘Hawaii Five-0’ (7/6/2017), Self

Saving Asia: A How-To Guide for White Actors (4/4/2017), HuffPost

La La Land, Racism, and Political Correctness ​(2/14/2017), HuffPost

State of the Industry: From #OscarsSoWhite to ‘Moonlight’ (12/27/2016), Cinemathread

10 Actors of Color to End #OscarsSoWhite ​(12/14/2016), HuffPost

Birth of a Controversy ​(10/30/2016), HuffPost

Transforming Hollywood: Diversity Problems and Solutions (10/22/2016), Huffpost

A Racist Version of Mulan? A Movement to #MakeMulanRight (10/10/2016), HuffPost

Alan Yang’s Emmy Speech and the Model Minority Myth (9/19/2016), HuffPost

Lessons from Star Trek's 50 Years of Inclusion (9/8/2016), HuffPost

Super Asian America: Comic-Con and Beyond (7/26/2016), HuffPost

​Post 9/11, but not Post-Racial: An essay on 'Heroes' and 'Lost' (2009), Contexts.

The Asian American Vote: How the Media Portrays Race Relations in the 2008 Democratic Primaries (2009), St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary.

Documentaries

​Producer, MASS CONFUCIAN:
Chinese Language or Communist Propaganda? (2014), digital, 25 min. 
This documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 3, 2014 and the San Diego Asian Film Festival on November 8, 2014. 

Producer, Living in Silence: Toraichi Kono
"Living in Silence: Toraichi Kono" is a digital documentary about the life of Toraichi Kono, a Japanese American who became Charlie Chaplin's personal valet and confidant only to lose it all in an environment of accusation, fear and paranoia. This untold story threads together classic Hollywood, Japanese American and World War II history.