Looking for Asian America : an ethnocentric tour by Wing Young Huie / Wing Young Huie ; foreword by Frank H. Wu ; essay by Anita Gonzalez ; travelogue by Tara Simpson Huie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huie, Wing Young, 1955-

Contributor:

Gonzalez, Anita.

Wu, Frank H., 1967-

Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Asian Americans.

Huie, Wing Young, 1955---Exhibitions.

Huie, Wing Young.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young HuieÑthe only member of his family not born in ChinaÑtraveled with his wife, Tara, through nearly forty states to explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian American and American cultures. Looking for Asian America illustrates their rich and surprising journey across the United States.Through HuieÕs eyes, keenly aware of his own Midwestern roots and perspective, we witness such images as a Vietnamese Elvis, Miss Congeniality on her cell phone in San FranciscoÕs Chinatown, a Hm

Contents:

Foreword / Frank H. Wu

Preface : Jesus Christ Superstar

Autobiography and ethnocentricity / Anita Gonzales

Looking for Asian America

Ming Wo Cookware

Locke

Elmer and Larkin

Stephen and Chihiro

Slope County

Oregon Motel

Bruce Lee

Ping

Saigon y'all

Martin Yan

Lilly and Steamy

Elvis

Molokai

Splendid China Theme Park

Judy and Juxin

Views from the road / Tara Simpson Huie.

Notes:

"The exhibition Nine Months in America: an ethnocentric tour by Wing Young Huie premiered at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, April 17-August 1, 2004. This book is an extension of the exhibition, which included more than one hundred photographs and videotaped interviews with many of the people Wing photographed. I was the cocurator of the exhibition"--Foreword.

ISBN:

9780816654000

081665400X

OCLC:

476187120