About the Authors
Andrew L. Aoki and Okiyoshi (Oki) Takeda
Andrew L. Aoki is Professor of Political Science at Augsburg College (Minneapolis, Minnesota), and co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) in the American Political Science Association.
Among his publications is the forthcoming co-authored book Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-First Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). He was also a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (Orxy Press, 2000).
His website can be found here.
Okiyoshi (Oki) Takeda is an Associate Professor at the School of International Politics, Economics, and Communication (SIPEC) at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. He gained a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and taught courses on Asian American Politics at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Columbia University and Japan Women's University.
Aoki and Takeda deserve a big round of applause for writing the first book on Asian American politics specifically for undergraduate teaching and learning.