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East Main Street

Asian American Popular Culture
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From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to "faux Asian" fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture through food to the contemporary clarnor for transnational Chinese women's historical fiction. East Main Street hits the shelves in the midst of a boom in Asian American population and cultural production. This book is essential not only for understanding Asian American popular culture but also contemporary U.S. popular culture writ large.
Acknowledgments Foreword Robert G. LeeIntroduction Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. OrenPart I: Globalization and Local IdentitiesTrance-FormationsSunaina MairaMaking Transnational Vietnamese MusicKieu Linh Caroline ValverdePlanet BollywoodJigna DesaiModel Minorities Can CookAnita Mannur"pappy's house"Vicente M. DiazPart II: Cultural Legacy and Memories"Within Each Crack/A Story"Victor Bascara"A Woman Is Nothing"Christine SoBetween Yellowphilia and YellowphobiaHye Seung ChungWhose Paradise? Morris YoungMiss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'RiainHow to Rehabilitate a MulattoHiram PerezPart III: Ethnicity and Identi?cationBruce Lee in the Ghetto ConnectionAmy Abugo Ongiri"Alllooksame"? Lisa NakamuraGuilty PleasuresLeiLani NishimeCibo Matto's Stereotype AJane C. H. ParkApu's Brown VoiceShilpa DaveSecret Asian ManTasha G. OrenAbout the Contributors Index
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