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A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture

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