{"product_id":"imagining-asia-in-the-americas-hardback-9780813585215","title":"Imagining Asia in the Americas (Hardback) 9780813585215","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagining Asia in the Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZelideth María Rivas (Edited by), Debbie Lee-DiStefano (Edited by), Debbie Lee-DiStefano (Contributions by), Kathleen López (Contributions by), Martin A. Tsang (Contributions by), Junyoung Verónica Kim (Contributions by), Adrian H. Hearn (Contributions by), José Amador (Contributions by), Julia Katz (Contributions by), Ann Kaneko (Contributions by), Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (Contributions by), Ignacio López-Calvo (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813585215\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 3 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.478 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImagining Asia in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Jerry García (author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This excellent volume is a welcome addition to the research on Asians in the Americas. The essays break new ground in this scant area of research, building on the currently small number of voices of Asians coming out of these regions.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Karen Kuo (author of East is West and West is East) \u003cdiv\u003e\"From Coolitude to Sinalidad,\u003ci\u003e Imagining Asia in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e boldly charts intersecting diasporas, borders, languages and continents to remap the complex history of Asian descent peoples in the New World.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Allan Punzalan Isaac (author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003echinos\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eImagining Asia in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDrawing 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, \u003ci\u003eImagining Asia in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a conversation between various Asian communities within the Americas and beyond. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDebbie Lee-DiStefano\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eKathleen LÓ\u003cbr\u003epez\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMartin A. Tsang\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2: Disrupting the “\u003cbr\u003eWhite Myth”\u003cbr\u003e: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJunyoung VerÓ\u003cbr\u003enica Kim\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAdrian H. Hearn\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart II: Historicities: Interlude\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eKathleen LÓ\u003cbr\u003epez\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJosÉ\u003cbr\u003e Amador\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’\u003cbr\u003ei\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJulia Katz\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart III: Lives \/ Representations: Interlude\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eKathleen LÓ\u003cbr\u003epez\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAnn Kaneko\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRoshni Rustomji-Kerns\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in JÚ\u003cbr\u003elio Miyazawa’\u003cbr\u003es Yawara! 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