Imagining Asia in the Americas / / ed. by Zelideth María Rivas, Debbie Lee-DiStefano.
For 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 m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian American Studies Today
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 3 photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas
- Introduction
- 1. Yellow Blindness in a Black-and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity
- 2. Disrupting the "White Myth": Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries
- 3. Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba
- PART II. Historicities: Interlude
- Introduction
- 4. Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
- 5. The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i
- PART III. Lives/Representations: Interlude
- Introduction
- 6. Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences
- 7. Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati
- 8. Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index