He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (2005) and co-editor of the volume Asian American Studies: A Reader (2000). He has guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies on the topic of “Asian Americans and Violence,” as well as serving as the journal’s book review editor. He is also working on a new manuscript tentatively entitled “Asian American Racial Formations and the New Left.”