East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Globalization and Local Identities -- 1. Trance-Formations: Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism in Youth Culture -- 2. Making Transnational Vietnamese Music: Sounds of Home and Resistance -- 3. Planet Bollywood: Indian Cinema Abroad -- 4. Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America -- 5. "Pappy's house": "Pop" Culture and the Revaluation of a Filipino American "Sixty-Cents" in Guam -- Part II: Cultural Legacy and Memories -- 6. "Within Each Crack/A Story": The Political Economy of Queering Filipino American Pasts -- 7. "A Woman Is Nothing": Valuing the Modern Chinese Woman's Epic Journey to the West -- 8. Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Ethnic Stardom and the (Dis)Orientalized Romantic Couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown -- 9. Whose Paradise? Hawai'i, Desire, and the Global-Local Tensions of Popular Culture -- 10. Miss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America -- 11. How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods -- Part III. Ethnicity and Identification -- 12. Bruce Lee in the Ghetto Connection: Kung Fu Theater and African Americans Reinventing Culture at the Margins -- 13. "Alllooksame"? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web -- 14. Guilty Pleasures: Keanu Reeves, Superman, and Racial Outing -- 15. Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop -- 16. Apu's Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents -- 17. Secret Asian Man: Angry Asians and the Politics of Cultural Visibility -- About the Contributors -- Index