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Annotation, Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture

Combines perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism in international politicsIllustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian lifeCase studies cover 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents: from the Middle East and post-socialist Europe to the USA, Britain, Australia and Cuba Offers diverse methodological examples including autoethnography, visual analysis, fashion history, and digital media researchIntegrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disabilityThis vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it. ContributorsCatherine Baker, University of Hull, UK.Federica Caso, University of Queensland, Australia. Dan Evans, independent researcher, support worker and activist. Sorana Jude, Newcastle University, UK. Jennifer G. Mathers, Aberystwyth University, UK.Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Lund University, Sweden.Henri Myrttinen, Mauerpark Institute, GermanyAmy Abugo Ongiri, Lawrence University, USA. Jane Tynan, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK

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