Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America

Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors.

"Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans' interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Wr...

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Other Authors: Nguyen, Mimi Thi, 1974-, Tu, Thuy Linh N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans > Social life and customs.
Asian Americans > Study and teaching.
Popular culture > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Asian Americans > Social life and customs
Asian Americans > Study and teaching
Ethnic relations
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Ethnische Identität
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Social life and customs.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States
USA
Asiaten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
  • 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 Vicuña 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.

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