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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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Titolo: AfroAsian encounters : culture, history, politics / / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen ; with a foreword by Vijay Prashad and afterword by Gary Okihiro Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
Disciplina: 305.895/073
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Relations with Asian Americans
African Americans - Intellectual life
Asian Americans - Intellectual life
Blacks - America - Intellectual life
Asians - America - Intellectual life
Ethnicity - America
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
America Race relations
United States Intellectual life
America Intellectual life
Altri autori: Raphael-HernandezHeike  
SteenShannon  
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
Altri titoli varianti: Afro Asian encounters
Titolo autorizzato: AfroAsian encounters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-7690-6
0-8147-6927-6
1-4356-0745-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814215303321
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