East Main Street : Asian American popular culture / edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren ; foreword by Robert G. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davé, Shilpa.

Nishime, LeiLani.

Oren, Tasha G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asian American arts.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

Asian Americans--Race identity.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2005]

Summary:

From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano 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.

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 / Vicente M. Diaz

"Within each crack/a story" : the political economy of queering Filipino American pasts / Victor Bascara

"A woman is nothing" : valuing the modern Chinese woman's epic journey to the West / 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 Asian American visual cultures of race on the Web / Lisa Nakamura

Guilty pleasures : Keanu Reeves, Superman, and racial outing / LeiLani Nishime

Cibo Matto's Stereotype A : articulating Asian American hip pop / Jane Park

Apu's brown voice : cultural inflection and South Asian accents / Shilpa Davé

Secret Asian man : angry Asians and the politics of cultural visibility / Tasha G. Oren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814719627

0814719635

OCLC:

56729659