05760nam 22008175 450 991079865840332120191022022751.00-8135-8523-610.36019/9780813585239(CKB)3710000000837481(EBL)4661621(MiAaPQ)EBC4661621(OCoLC)957619246(MdBmJHUP)muse53390(DE-B1597)530213(DE-B1597)9780813585239(EXLCZ)99371000000083748120191022d2016 fg engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierImagining Asia in the Americas /Zelideth María Rivas, Debbie Lee-DiStefanoNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (214 p.)Asian American Studies TodayDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-8521-X 0-8135-8520-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lee-Distefano, Debbie -- PART I. Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 1. Yellow Blindness in a Black-and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity / Tsang, Martin A. -- 2. Disrupting the "White Myth": Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries / Verónica Kim, Junyoung -- 3. Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba / Hearn, Adrian H. -- PART II. Historicities: Interlude -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 4. Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba / Amador, José -- 5. The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i / Katz, Julia -- PART III. Lives/Representations: Interlude -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 6. Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences / Kaneko, Ann -- 7. Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati / Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni -- 8. Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi / López-Calvo, Ignacio -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexFor centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial "others," lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity? The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. Focusing on a variety of locations across South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the book's contributors reveal the rich diversity of Asian American identities. Yet taken together, they provide an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures. Drawing from a rich array of source materials, including texts in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Gujarati that have never before been translated into English, this collection represents a groundbreaking work of scholarship. Through its unique comparative approach, Imagining Asia in the Americas opens up a conversation between various Asian communities within the Americas and beyond.Asian American studies today.Community lifeAmericaTransnationalismSocial aspectsAmericaImmigrantsAmericaSocial conditionsAsiansAmericaSocial conditionsPublic opinionAmericaAsiaForeign public opinion, Latin AmericanAsiaForeign public opinion, CaribbeanAsiaForeign public opinion, AmericanAmericaRelationsAsiaAsiaRelationsAmericaElectronic books. asian, asia, china, korea, japan, chinese, ancestry, asian american, immigrant, chinese american, japanese american, korean american, south america, caribbean, central america, identity, culture, heritage, asian community.Community lifeTransnationalismSocial aspectsImmigrantsSocial conditions.AsiansSocial conditions.Public opinion303.48/25097Amador José1475265Hearn Adrian H1475266Kaneko Ann1475267Katz Julia1475268Kim Junyoung Verónica1475269Lee-DiStefano Debbie1475270López Kathleen1475271López-Calvo Ignacio1130828Rustomji-Kerns Roshni1475272Tsang Martin A1475273Lee-DiStefano Debbie, Rivas Zelideth María, DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798658403321Imagining Asia in the Americas3689432UNINA