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Eating Asian America : a food studies reader / edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--Social aspects--United States.
- Food habits.
- Food--Social aspects--United States.
- Food.
- Cooking, Asian--Social aspects.
- Cooking, Asian.
- Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (455 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shapedChop 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.Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness. It does so by bringing together twenty scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to inaugurate a new turn in food studies: the refusal to yield to a superficial multiculturalism that naively celebrates difference and reconciliation through the pleasures of food and eating. By focusing on multi-sited struggles across various spaces and times, the contributors to this anthology bring into focus the potent forces of class, racial, ethnic, sexual and gender inequalities that pervade and persist in the production of Asian American culinary and alimentary practices, ideas, and images. This is the first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Labors of taste
- pt. 2. Empires of food
- pt. 3. Fusion, diffusion, confusion?
- pt. 4. Readable feasts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-78402-490-2
- 1-4798-1895-X
- OCLC:
- 856870291
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