Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America
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