| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Trance-formations : orientalism and cosmopolitanism in youth culture / Sunaina Maira -- Making transnational Vietnamese music : sounds of home and resistance / Kieu Linh Valverde -- Planet bollywood : Indian cinema abroad / Jigna Desai -- Model minorities can cook: fusion cuisine in asian america / Anita Mannur -- Chung Pappy's house : history, pop culture, and the reevaluation of a Filipino-American "sixty-cents" in Guam / Vincente Diaz -- Within each crack/a story" : the political economy of queering Filipino American pasts queering the past / Victor Bascara -- The bound feet of the concubines : fetishizing Chinese women's history in the transnational era / Christine So -- Between yellowphilia and yellowphobia : ethnic stardom and the (dis)orientalized romantic couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown / Hye Seung Chung -- Whose paradise? : Hawai'i, desire, and American popular culture / Morris Young -- Miss Cherry Blossom meets mainstream America / Rebecca King -- How to rehabilitate a mulatto : the iconography of Tiger Woods / Hiram Perez -- Bruce Lee in the ghetto connection : kung fu theater and African Americans reinventing culture at the margins / Amy Abugo Ongiri -- Alllooksame? : mediating visual cultures of race on the Web / Lisa Nakamura -- Guilty pleasures : Keanu Reeves, Superman, and racial outing / LeiLani Nishime -- Cibo Matto's stereotype : articulating Asian American hip-hop / Jane Park -- Apu's Brown voice : cultural inflection and South Asian accents / Shilpa Dave -- Secret Asian man : angry Asians and the politics of cultural visibility / Tasha Oren |
| Summary |
From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to "faux Asian" fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture through food to the contemporary clamor for transnational Chinese women's historical fiction. East Main Street hits the shelves in the midst of a boom in Asian American population and cultural production. This book is essential not only for understanding Asian American popular culture but also contemporary U.S. popular culture writ large |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed September 25, 2023) |
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
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Asian American arts.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Asian Americans -- Race identity
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Asian American arts
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
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Asian Americans -- Race identity
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Popular culture
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Race relations
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Ethnische Identität
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Asiatischer Einwanderer
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Alltagskultur
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Populaire cultuur.
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Aziaten.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davé, Shilpa, edidtor.
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Nishime, LeiLani, editor.
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Oren, Tasha G., editor.
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| LC no. |
2004022335 |
| ISBN |
9781479875078 |
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1479875074 |
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