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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451889103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-7690-6

0-8147-6927-6

1-4356-0745-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Raphael-HernandezHeike

SteenShannon

Disciplina

305.895/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Relations with Asian Americans

African Americans - Intellectual life

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

Black people - America - Intellectual life

Asians - America - Intellectual life

Ethnicity - America

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

America Race relations

United States Intellectual life

America Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Bandung Is Done; Introduction: AfroAsian Encounters; Part I: Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities; " A Race So Different from Our Own"; Crossings in Prose; Complicating Racial Binaries; One People, One Nation?; Black-and-Tan Fantasies; Part II: Confronting the Color Hierarchy; " It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words"; Chutney, Metissage, and Other Mixed Metaphors; These Are the Breaks; Part III: Performing AfroAsian Identities; Racing American Modernity; Black Bodies/Yellow Masks; The Rush Hour of



Black/Asian Coalitions?

Performing Postmodernist Passing Part IV: Celebrating Unity; Persisting Solidarities; Internationalism and Justice; " Jazz That Eats Rice"; Kickin' the White Man's Ass; Afterword: Toward a Black Pacific; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro  How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930's swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?  AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910706266303321

Titolo

An employee's guide to health benefits under COBRA : the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Soggetti

Employer-sponsored health insurance - Government policy - United States

Health insurance continuation coverage - Law and legislation - United States

Health insurance continuation coverage - Law and legislation

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Subtitle varies.

Subtitle dropped following issue for September 2014.