East Main Street
Subtitle: Asian American popular culture
By: edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren ; foreword by Robert G. Lee.
Contributors: Davé, Shilpa.; Nishime, LeiLani.; Oren, Tasha G.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Asian American arts; Popular culture -- United States; Asian Americans -- Race identity; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trance-formations : orientalism and cosmopolitanism in youth culture / Sunaina Maira; title: Making transnational Vietnamese music : sounds of home and resistance / Kieu Linh Valverde; title: Planet bollywood : Indian cinema abroad / Jigna Desai; title: Model minorities can cook: fusion cuisine in asian america / Anita Mannur; title: Chung Pappy's house : history, pop culture, and the reevaluation of a Filipino-American "sixty-cents" in Guam / Vincente Diaz; title: Within each crack/a story" : the political economy of queering Filipino American pasts queering the past / Victor Bascara; title: The bound feet of the concubines : fetishizing Chinese women's history in the transnational era / Christine So; title: Between yellowphilia and yellowphobia : ethnic stardom and the (dis)orientalized romantic couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown / Hye Seung Chung; title: Whose paradise? : Hawai'i, desire, and American popular culture / Morris Young; title: Miss Cherry Blossom meets mainstream America / Rebecca King; title: How to rehabilitate a mulatto : the iconography of Tiger Woods / Hiram Perez; title: Bruce Lee in the ghetto connection : kung fu theater and African Americans reinventing culture at the margins / Amy Abugo Ongiri; title: Alllooksame? : mediating visual cultures of race on the Web / Lisa Nakamura; title: Guilty pleasures : Keanu Reeves, Superman, and racial outing / LeiLani Nishime; title: Cibo Matto's stereotype : articulating Asian American hip-hop / Jane Park; title: Apu's Brown voice : cultural inflection and South Asian accents / Shilpa Dave; title: Secret Asian man : angry Asians and the politics of cultural visibility / Tasha Oren.