Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals (University of California Press, 1999)

Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (University of California Press, 2001)
2002 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, National Museum of American Art.
2003 Cultural Studies Book Award, Association of Asian American Studies

Diane Arbus: Family Albums, with John Pultz (Yale University Press, 2003)

Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories (University of Washington Press, 2003)