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 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. Through its unique comparative approach, Imagining Asia in the Americas opens up a conversation between various Asian communities within the Americas and beyond.
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Investigates 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. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.
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ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionDebbie Lee-DiStefano Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the AmericasKathleen López Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban ReligiosityMartin A. Tsang Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National ImaginariesJunyoung Verónica Kim Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and CubaAdrian H. Hearn Part II: Historicities: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century CubaJosé Amador Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’iJulia Katz Part III: Lives / Representations: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational ExperiencesAnn Kaneko Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in GujaratiRoshni Rustomji-Kerns Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para YumiIgnacio López-Calvo BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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"Imagining Asia in the Americas brings fresh ideas and scholarship to the field. Using oral histories and personal experience, the essays in this volume convey a level of intimacy missing from other collections on the Asian diaspora."
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780813585208
Publisert
2016-09-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
01, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet