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In her research on popular culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in the aftermath of migration. Embracing American democratic ideals and consumer capitalism prior to arriving in the United States, postwar Vietnamese refugees endeavored to assimilate and live the American Dream. In "The American Dream in Vietnamese," she claims that nowhere are these fantasies played out more vividly than in the Vietnamese American entertainment industry. Lieu examines how live music variety shows and videos, beauty pageants

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sounds Authentic? -- One Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC -- Two Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz -- 2. Popular Places -- Three. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction -- Four Visual Reconnaissance -- Five Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru -- Six The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness -- 3. Consuming Cultures -- Seven Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences -- Eight Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media -- Nine Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture -- 4. Troubled Technologies -- Ten Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures -- Eleven Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois -- Twelve Race and Software -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index