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Global Asian American popular cultures /

"Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints--such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and Asian fusion cuisine--have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davé, Shilpa (Editor ), Nishime, LeiLani (Editor ), Oren, Tasha G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren
  • Part I. Stars and celebrities
  • Trans-Pacific flows : globalization and hybridity in Bruce Lee's Hong Kong films / Daryl Joji Maeda
  • "I'm thankful for Manny" : Manny Pacquiao, pugilistic nationalism, and the Filipina/o body / Constancio Arnaldo
  • A history of race and he(te)rosexuality in the movies : James Shigeta's Asian American male stardom / Celine Parreñas Shimizu
  • Model maternity : Amy Chua and Asian American motherhood / Julia H. Lee
  • YouTube made the TV star : KevJumba's star appearance on the Amazing Race 17 / Vincent Pham and Kent A. Ono
  • David Choe's "Koreans gone bad" : the LA riots, comparative racialization, and branding a politics of deviance / Wendy Sung
  • Part II. Making community
  • From the Mekong to the Merrimack and back : the transnational terrains of Cambodian American rap / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
  • "You'll learn much about Pakistanis from listening to radio" : Pakistani radio programming in Houston, Texas / Ahmed Afzal
  • Online Asian American popular culture, digitization, and museums / Konrad Ng
  • Asian American food blogging as racial branding : rewriting the search for authenticity / Lori Kido Lopez
  • Picturing the past : drawing together Vietnamese American transnational history / Timothy K. August
  • Part III. Wading in the mainstream
  • Paradise, Hawaiian style : tourist films and the mixed-race utopias of U.S. empire / Camilla Fojas
  • Post-9/11 global migration in Battlestar Galactica / Leilani Nishime
  • "Did you think when I opened my mouth?" : Asian American indie rock and the middling noise of racialization / Douglas Ishii
  • Winning the Bee : South Asians, spelling bee competitions, and American racial branding / Shilpa Davé
  • The blood sport of cooking : on Asian American chefs and television / Tasha Oren
  • Part IV. Migration and transnational popular culture
  • Curry as code : food, race, and technology / Madhavi Mallapragada
  • Bollywood's 9/11 : terrorism and Muslim masculinities in popular Hindi cinema / Deepti Misri
  • Hybrid Hallyu : the African American music tradition in K-pop / Crystal S. Anderson
  • Transnational beauty circuits : Asian American women, technology, and circle contact lenses / Linda Trinh Vo
  • Making whales out of peacocks : virtual fashion and Asian female factory hands / Christopher B. Patterson
  • Failed returns : the queer Balikbayan in R. Zamora Linmark's Leche and Gil Portes's Miguel/Michelle / Robert Diaz.