AfroAsian encounters : culture, history, politics / / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen ; with a foreword by Vijay Prashad and afterword by Gary Okihiro.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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