ISBN:
9780813585239
,
0813585236
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
Asian American studies today
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
303.4825097
Keywords:
Community life America
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Transnationalism Social aspects
;
America
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
America
;
Asians Social conditions
;
America
;
Public opinion America
;
Community life
;
Transnationalism Social aspects
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Asians Social conditions
;
Public opinion
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Asians Social conditions
;
Public opinion
;
Transnationalism Social aspects
;
Community life
;
International relations
;
Public opinion
;
Public opinion, American
;
Public opinion, Latin American
;
LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; Asian American
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Asians ; Social conditions
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Community life
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Immigrants ; Social conditions
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Latin American
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Caribbean
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, American
;
America Relations
;
Asia
;
Asia Relations
;
America
;
Asia Relations
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Latin American
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Caribbean
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, American
;
America Relations
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, American
;
America Relations
;
Asia Relations
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Latin American
;
Asia Foreign public opinion, Caribbean
;
America
;
Asia
;
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Abstract:
"This book introduces and explores Asian communities in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America through literary, historical, and theoretical frameworks by bringing together the multiple cultural perspectives of an emerging field of study: the transnational field of Asians in the Americas. The new scholarship of these authors addresses familial, historical, and literary ties to Asia, while also introducing the contributions of Asians in the Americas in an interdisciplinary framework, easily accessible to students and scholars and amendable for course adoption. The subjects of these essays emphasize community by discussing identity, religion, culture, public health, business, language, film, and literature. They imagine the homeland and the possibilities that life in the country of residence holds. This volume seeks to understand the historically collapsed notion of Asians in the Americas, wherein Asian identity has been strategically invoked within rigid confines for political and ideological perspectives. Through a comparative framework, Imagining Asia in the Americas moves past research models that consider the immigrant as a static subject that cuts his ties with the homeland and immerses himself in a new identity specifically linked to the host country. Instead, they introduce new approaches to examine the intersections of the past and present in community formation as it is linked to the homeland as well as the resident country"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction / Debbie Lee-DiStefano -- Part I. Encounters : Moving past encounters : people of Asian descent in the Americas / Kathleen López -- Yellow blindness in a black and white ethnoscape : Chinese influence and heritage in Afro-Cuban religiosity / Martin A. Tsang -- Disrupting "the white myth" : Korean immigration to Buenos Aires and national imaginaries / Junyoung Verónica Kim -- Harnessing the dragon : overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba / Adrian H. Hearn -- Part II. Historicities : interlude / Kathleen López -- Caught between crime and disease : Chinese exclusion and immigration restrictions in early twentieth-century Cuba / Jose Amador -- The politics of the pipe : opium regulation and protocolonial governance in nineteenth century Hawai'i / Julia Katz -- Part III. Lives/representations : interlude / Kathleen López -- Musings on identity and transgenerational experiences / Ann Kaneko -- Intersecting words : haiku in Gujarati / Roshni Rustomji-Kerns -- Cultural celebration, historical memory, and claim to place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! a travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma rosa para Yumi / Ignacio López-Calvo
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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