ISBN:
9781435607453
,
1435607457
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxiii, 312 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version AfroAsian encounters
DDC:
305.895073
Keywords:
African Americans Relations with Asian Americans
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Asian Americans Intellectual life
;
Blacks Intellectual life
;
America
;
Asians Intellectual life
;
America
;
Ethnicity America
;
Ethnicity
;
Asian Americans Intellectual life
;
Blacks Intellectual life
;
Asians Intellectual life
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
African Americans Relations with Asian Americans
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Asian Americans Intellectual life
;
Blacks Intellectual life
;
Asians Intellectual life
;
Ethnicity
;
African Americans Relations with Asian Americans
;
Intellectual life
;
Race relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Asian American Studies
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African Americans ; Intellectual life
;
African Americans ; Relations with Asian Americans
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Asian Americans ; Intellectual life
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Blacks ; Intellectual life
;
Ethnicity
;
Asians ; Intellectual life
;
United States Race relations
;
America Race relations
;
United States Intellectual life
;
America Intellectual life
;
America
;
United States
;
America Race relations
;
United States Intellectual life
;
America Intellectual life
;
United States Race relations
;
America Race relations
;
United States Intellectual life
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America Intellectual life
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United States Race relations
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America
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Abstract:
"A race so different from our own": segregation, exclusion, and the myth of mobility / Sanda Mayzaw Lwin -- Crossings in prose: Jade Snow Wong and the demand for a new kind of expert / Cynthia Tolentino -- Complicating racial binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as visible minorities / Eleanor Ty -- One people, one nation? Creolization and its tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese fiction / Lourdes López Ropero -- Black-and-tan fantasies: interracial contact between blacks and south Asians in film / Samir Dayal -- "It takes some time to learn the right words": the Vietnam War in African American novels / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- Chutney, métissage, and other mixed metaphors: reading Indo Caribbean art in Afro Caribbean contexts / Gita Rajan -- These are the breaks: hip-hop and AfroAsian cultural (dis)connections / Oliver Wang -- Racing American modernity: black Atlantic negotiations of Asia and the "swing" Mikados / Shannon Steen -- Black bodies/yellow masks: the Orientalist aesthetic in hip-hop and black visual culture / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- The Rush hour of black/Asian coalitions? Jackie Chan and blackface minstrelsy / Mita Banerjee -- Performing postmodernist passing: Nikki S. Lee, Tuff, and Ghost dog in yellowface/blackface / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Persisting solidarities: tracing the AfroAsian thread in U.S. literature and culture / Bill V. Mullen -- Internationalism and justice: Paul Robeson, Asia, and Asian Americans / Greg Robinson -- "Jazz that eats rice": Toshiko Akiyoshi's roots music / David W. Stowe -- Kickin' the white man's ass: black power, aesthetics, and the Asian martial arts / Fred Ho.
Abstract:
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro. How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?. AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political posit
Description / Table of Contents:
"A race so different from our own": segregation, exclusion, and the myth of mobility / Sanda Mayzaw LwinCrossings in prose: Jade Snow Wong and the demand for a new kind of expert / Cynthia Tolentino -- Complicating racial binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as visible minorities / Eleanor Ty -- One people, one nation? Creolization and its tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese fiction / Lourdes López Ropero -- Black-and-tan fantasies: interracial contact between blacks and south Asians in film / Samir Dayal -- "It takes some time to learn the right words": the Vietnam War in African American novels / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- Chutney, métissage, and other mixed metaphors: reading Indo Caribbean art in Afro Caribbean contexts / Gita Rajan -- These are the breaks: hip-hop and AfroAsian cultural (dis)connections / Oliver Wang -- Racing American modernity: black Atlantic negotiations of Asia and the "swing" Mikados / Shannon Steen -- Black bodies/yellow masks: the Orientalist aesthetic in hip-hop and black visual culture / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- The Rush hour of black/Asian coalitions? Jackie Chan and blackface minstrelsy / Mita Banerjee -- Performing postmodernist passing: Nikki S. Lee, Tuff, and Ghost dog in yellowface/blackface / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Persisting solidarities: tracing the AfroAsian thread in U.S. literature and culture / Bill V. Mullen -- Internationalism and justice: Paul Robeson, Asia, and Asian Americans / Greg Robinson -- "Jazz that eats rice": Toshiko Akiyoshi's roots music / David W. Stowe -- Kickin' the white man's ass: black power, aesthetics, and the Asian martial arts / Fred Ho.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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