“’The strange’ in the works Song addresses can help create new ways of thinking about the past and the future, though possible pathways to optimism about that future are left largely undiscovered.” — Stacey Peebles, American Literature
“Strange Future, and its texts, demand and deserve our full attention.” — Nancy Abelmann, Journal of Social History
“[T]he author’s historical observations are both sensible and provocative. . . .” — Leo J. Mahoney, Multicultural Review
“[T]his book is an important contribution to Asian American studies. Not only scholars in Asian American literature but also social scientists studying Asian Americans can learn a great deal from this book about how to analyze social and political problems affecting Asian American experiences by reviewing major cultural products.”
— Pyong Gap Min, Journal of Asian American Studies
"[C]learly-written." — Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times,
“Min Hyoung Song’s Strange Future asks of us—a public formed by the Los Angeles riots of 1992—what is to be done with the will to revolution in light of the injustices mounting since the 1990s? Clearing precious critical space, Song exemplifies our capture by and necessary revisitation of 1992, as neither fatalism nor melancholy, but a careful hermeneutic of the event and its aftermath: a working-through that is a provision for a possible future. This is a thoughtful work for our serious times.” — Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
“This is one of the most enjoyable, well-written Asian American studies books I have read in the last few years. Min Hyoung Song’s work is a testament to writing well when saying something important.” — Kent Ono, coauthor of Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187