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AfroAsian encounters, culture, history, politics, edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen ; with a foreword by Vijay Prashad and afterword by Gary Okihiro

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AfroAsian encounters, culture, history, politics, edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen ; with a foreword by Vijay Prashad and afterword by Gary Okihiro
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
AfroAsian encounters
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
69671852
Responsibility statement
edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen ; with a foreword by Vijay Prashad and afterword by Gary Okihiro
Sub title
culture, history, politics
Table Of Contents
"A race so different from our own": segregation, exclusion, and the myth of mobility / Sanda Mayzaw Lwin -- Crossings in prose: Jade Snow Wong and the demand for a new kind of expert / Cynthia Tolentino -- Complicating racial binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as visible minorities / Eleanor Ty -- One people, one nation? Creolization and its tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese fiction / Lourdes López Ropero -- Black-and-tan fantasies: interracial contact between blacks and south Asians in film / Samir Dayal -- "It takes some time to learn the right words": the Vietnam War in African American novels / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- Chutney, métissage, and other mixed metaphors: reading Indo Caribbean art in Afro Caribbean contexts / Gita Rajan -- These are the breaks: hip-hop and AfroAsian cultural (dis)connections / Oliver Wang -- Racing American modernity: black Atlantic negotiations of Asia and the "swing" Mikados / Shannon Steen -- Black bodies/yellow masks: the Orientalist aesthetic in hip-hop and black visual culture / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- The Rush hour of black/Asian coalitions? Jackie Chan and blackface minstrelsy / Mita Banerjee -- Performing postmodernist passing: Nikki S. Lee, Tuff, and Ghost dog in yellowface/blackface / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Persisting solidarities: tracing the AfroAsian thread in U.S. literature and culture / Bill V. Mullen -- Internationalism and justice: Paul Robeson, Asia, and Asian Americans / Greg Robinson -- "Jazz that eats rice": Toshiko Akiyoshi's roots music / David W. Stowe -- Kickin' the white man's ass: black power, aesthetics, and the Asian martial arts / Fred Ho
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