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Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Asian Americans--Social life and customs.
- Asian Americans--Study and teaching.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows.
- Contents:
- Rapping and repping Asian : race, authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang
- Silenced but not silent : Asian Americans and jazz / Kevin Fellezs
- Homicidal tendencies : violence and the global economy in Asian American pulp fiction / Christopher A. Shinn
- Visual reconnaissance / Joan Kee
- Chinese restaurant drive-thru / Indigo Som
- The guru and the cultural politics of placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu
- Cooking up the senses : a critical embodied approach to the study of food and Asian American television audiences / Martin F. Manalansan
- Performing culture in diaspora : assimilation and hybridity in Paris by night videos and Vietnamese American niche media / Nhi T. Lieu
- Indo-Chic : late capitalist orientalism and imperial culture / Sunaina Maira
- Asian American auto/biographies : the gendered limits of consumer citizenship in import subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez
- Bruce Lee I love you : discourses of race and masculinity in the queer superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen
- Race and software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822339106
- 0822339102
- OCLC:
- 271166203
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