"With increasing numbers of Asian international students on U.S. campuses, this timely study convincingly shows how such students have long been central to Asian American history and civil rights movements."
— Anna Pegler-Gordon, author of In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy
"An innovative contribution to Asian American studies and 'long civil rights movement' historiography … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
— CHOICE
"Hinnershitz's work is timely and important to consider, especially given the current landscape of Asian international student populations on many of our college campuses and their subsequent developing identities as racialized bodies."
— History of Education Quarterly
"An engaging narrative that takes up the intersection of race, religion, and civil rights and that includes subjects and themes that often have been overlooked or not been taken into account comparatively."
— American Historical Review
"Hinnershitz takes an innovative approach to the people whom Americans generally regarded as non-American other. This is a welcome innovation in the research on the civil rights movement."
— Liping Bu, author of Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century
"Hinnershitz's study is...a welcome addition to the historiography of Asian American activism, emphasizing their place in the long and 'wide,' in Mark Brilliant's formulation, history of the Civil Rights Movement."
— Pacific Historical Review