Imagining Asia in the Americas /
"This book introduces and explores Asian communities in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America through literary, historical, and theoretical frameworks by bringing together the multiple cultural perspectives of an emerging field of study: the transnational field of Asians in the Americas. T...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Asian American studies today
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Debbie Lee-DiStefano
- Part I. Encounters : Moving past encounters : people of Asian descent in the Americas / Kathleen López
- Yellow blindness in a black and white ethnoscape : Chinese influence and heritage in Afro-Cuban religiosity / Martin A. Tsang
- Disrupting "the white myth" : Korean immigration to Buenos Aires and national imaginaries / Junyoung Verónica Kim
- Harnessing the dragon : overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba / Adrian H. Hearn
- Part II. Historicities : interlude / Kathleen López
- Caught between crime and disease : Chinese exclusion and immigration restrictions in early twentieth-century Cuba / Jose Amador
- The politics of the pipe : opium regulation and protocolonial governance in nineteenth century Hawai'i / Julia Katz
- Part III. Lives/representations : interlude / Kathleen López
- Musings on identity and transgenerational experiences / Ann Kaneko
- Intersecting words : haiku in Gujarati / Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
- Cultural celebration, historical memory, and claim to place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! a travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma rosa para Yumi / Ignacio López-Calvo.
