LEADER 05760nam 22008175 450 001 9910798658403321 005 20191022022751.0 010 $a0-8135-8523-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813585239 035 $a(CKB)3710000000837481 035 $a(EBL)4661621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4661621 035 $a(OCoLC)957619246 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53390 035 $a(DE-B1597)530213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813585239 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000837481 100 $a20191022d2016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aImagining Asia in the Americas /$fZelideth María Rivas, Debbie Lee-DiStefano 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ : $cRutgers University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 0 $aAsian American Studies Today 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-8521-X 311 $a0-8135-8520-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction / $rLee-Distefano, Debbie -- $tPART I. Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas -- $tIntroduction / $rLópez, Kathleen -- $t1. Yellow Blindness in a Black-and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity / $rTsang, Martin A. -- $t2. Disrupting the "White Myth": Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries / $rVerónica Kim, Junyoung -- $t3. Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba / $rHearn, Adrian H. -- $tPART II. Historicities: Interlude -- $tIntroduction / $rLópez, Kathleen -- $t4. Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba / $rAmador, José -- $t5. The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i / $rKatz, Julia -- $tPART III. Lives/Representations: Interlude -- $tIntroduction / $rLópez, Kathleen -- $t6. Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences / $rKaneko, Ann -- $t7. Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati / $rRustomji-Kerns, Roshni -- $t8. Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi / $rLópez-Calvo, Ignacio -- $tBibliography -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex 330 $aFor 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. 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