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Eating Asian America : a food studies reader /

Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food. This...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ku, Robert Ji-Song (Editor ), Manalansan, Martin F., 1960- (Editor ), Mannur, Anita (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An alimentary introduction / Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur
  • Cambodian donut shops and the negotiation of identity in Los Angeles / Erin M. Curtis
  • Tasting America: the politics and pleasures of school lunch in Hawai'i / Christine R. Yano (with Wanda Adams)
  • A life cooking for others: the work and migration experiences of a Chinese restaurant worker in New York City, 1920-1946 / Heather R. Lee
  • Learning from Los Kogi Angeles: a taco truck and its city / Oliver Wang
  • The significance of Hawai'i regional cuisine in postcolonial Hawai'i / Samuel Hideo Yamashita
  • Incarceration, cafeteria style: the politics of the mess hall in the Japanese American incarceration / Heidi Kathleen Kim
  • As American as jackrabbit adobo: cooking, eating, and becoming Filipina/o American before World War II / Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
  • Lechon with Heinz, Lea & Perrins with adobo: the American relationship with Filipino food, 1898-1946 / René Alexander Orquiza Jr.
  • "Oriental cookery": devouring Asian and Pacific cuisine during the Cold War / Mark Padoongpatt
  • Gannenshoyu or first-year soy sauce?: Kikkoman soy sauce and the corporate forgetting of the early Japanese American consumer / Robert Ji-Song Ku
  • Twenty-first-century food trucks: mobility, social media, and urban hipness / Lok Siu
  • Samsa on Sheepshead Bay: tracing Uzbek foodprints in Southern Brooklyn / Zohra Saed
  • Apple pie and makizushi: Japanese American women sustaining family and community / Valerie J. Matsumoto
  • Giving credit where it is due: Asian American farmers and retailiers as food system pioneers / Nina F. Ichikawa
  • Beyond authenticity: rerouting the Filipino culinary diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan IV
  • Acting Asian American, eating Asian American: the politics of race and food in Don Lee's Wrack and ruin / Jennifer Ho
  • Devouring Hawai'i: food, consumption, and contemporary art / Margo Machida
  • "Love is not a bowl of quinces": food, desire, and the queer Asian body in Monique Truong's The book of salt / Denise Cruz
  • The globe at the table: how Madhur Jaffrey's World vegetarian reconfigures the world / Delores B. Phillips
  • Perfection on a plate: readings in the South Asian transnational queer kitchen / Anita Mannur.