Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland in Europe. She is editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence.Shannon Steen is assistant professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California at Berkeley.Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.Gary Okihiro is author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History.

"This collection is evidence of the important topics and perspectives generated by illuminating AfroAsian linkages." (The Journal of African American History) "Succeeds at placing blacks and Asians at the center of the Americas, inviting productive dialogue against the notion that interaction between these groups is out of the ordinary." (Journal of American Ethnic History) "What critical anthologies do best is to present. . . . And AfroAsian Encounters does that." (Journal of Asian American Studies) "As fresh and exciting as it is important. This crucial book changes the conversation around American Studies and Ethnic Studies in key ways, challenging scholars to light out for previously-uncharted places on our mental maps in which borders are interrogated and challenged, alliances forged through imagined communities, commerce, popular culture, or politics are investigated and probed, and questions that are simultaneously new, and half a century old, are revivified. This volume, the first interdisciplinary anthology dealing with AfroAsian encounters, stands to become a landmark work in the field." - Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Stanford University "A ground-breaking interdisciplinary anthology entirely devoted to the studies of historical and contemporary African/Asian interactions." (African American Review)

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: "Bandung Is Done"Vijay PrashadIntroduction: AfroAsian EncountersHeike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon SteenPart I Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities1 "A Race So Different from Our Own"Sanda Mayzaw Lwin2 Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert Cynthia Tolentino3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities Eleanor Ty4 One People, One Nation? Creolization and Its Tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese Fiction Lourdes Lopez Ropero5 Black-and-Tan Fantasies: Interracial Contact between Blacks and South Asians in Film Samir DayalPart II Confronting the Color Hierarchy6 "It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words"Heike Raphael-Hernandez7 Chutney, Metissage, and Other Mixed MetaphorsContexts Gita Rajan8 These Are the BreaksOliver WangPart III Performing AfroAsian Identities9 Racing American ModernityShannon Steen10 Black Bodies/Yellow MasksDeborah Elizabeth Whaley11 The Rush Hour of Black/Asian Coalitions?Mita Banerjee12 Performing Postmodernist PassingCathy Covell WaegnerPart IV Celebrating Unity13 Persisting SolidaritiesBill V. Mullen14 Internationalism and JusticeGreg Robinson15 "Jazz That Eats Rice"David W. Stowe16 Kickin' the White Man's AssFred HoAfterword: Toward a Black Paci?c Gary Y. OkihiroAbout the Contributors Index

Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland in Europe. She is editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence.Shannon Steen is assistant professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California at Berkeley.Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.Gary Okihiro is author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History.

"This collection is evidence of the important topics and perspectives generated by illuminating AfroAsian linkages." (The Journal of African American History) "Succeeds at placing blacks and Asians at the center of the Americas, inviting productive dialogue against the notion that interaction between these groups is out of the ordinary." (Journal of American Ethnic History) "What critical anthologies do best is to present. . . . And AfroAsian Encounters does that." (Journal of Asian American Studies) "As fresh and exciting as it is important. This crucial book changes the conversation around American Studies and Ethnic Studies in key ways, challenging scholars to light out for previously-uncharted places on our mental maps in which borders are interrogated and challenged, alliances forged through imagined communities, commerce, popular culture, or politics are investigated and probed, and questions that are simultaneously new, and half a century old, are revivified. This volume, the first interdisciplinary anthology dealing with AfroAsian encounters, stands to become a landmark work in the field." - Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Stanford University "A ground-breaking interdisciplinary anthology entirely devoted to the studies of historical and contemporary African/Asian interactions." (African American Review)

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: "Bandung Is Done"Vijay PrashadIntroduction: AfroAsian EncountersHeike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon SteenPart I Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities1 "A Race So Different from Our Own"Sanda Mayzaw Lwin2 Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert Cynthia Tolentino3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities Eleanor Ty4 One People, One Nation? Creolization and Its Tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese Fiction Lourdes Lopez Ropero5 Black-and-Tan Fantasies: Interracial Contact between Blacks and South Asians in Film Samir DayalPart II Confronting the Color Hierarchy6 "It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words"Heike Raphael-Hernandez7 Chutney, Metissage, and Other Mixed MetaphorsContexts Gita Rajan8 These Are the BreaksOliver WangPart III Performing AfroAsian Identities9 Racing American ModernityShannon Steen10 Black Bodies/Yellow MasksDeborah Elizabeth Whaley11 The Rush Hour of Black/Asian Coalitions?Mita Banerjee12 Performing Postmodernist PassingCathy Covell WaegnerPart IV Celebrating Unity13 Persisting SolidaritiesBill V. Mullen14 Internationalism and JusticeGreg Robinson15 "Jazz That Eats Rice"David W. Stowe16 Kickin' the White Man's AssFred HoAfterword: Toward a Black Paci?c Gary Y. OkihiroAbout the Contributors Index

Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland in Europe. She is editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence.Shannon Steen is assistant professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California at Berkeley.Vijay Prashad is author of Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.Gary Okihiro is author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History.

"This collection is evidence of the important topics and perspectives generated by illuminating AfroAsian linkages." (The Journal of African American History) "Succeeds at placing blacks and Asians at the center of the Americas, inviting productive dialogue against the notion that interaction between these groups is out of the ordinary." (Journal of American Ethnic History) "What critical anthologies do best is to present. . . . And AfroAsian Encounters does that." (Journal of Asian American Studies) "As fresh and exciting as it is important. This crucial book changes the conversation around American Studies and Ethnic Studies in key ways, challenging scholars to light out for previously-uncharted places on our mental maps in which borders are interrogated and challenged, alliances forged through imagined communities, commerce, popular culture, or politics are investigated and probed, and questions that are simultaneously new, and half a century old, are revivified. This volume, the first interdisciplinary anthology dealing with AfroAsian encounters, stands to become a landmark work in the field." - Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Stanford University "A ground-breaking interdisciplinary anthology entirely devoted to the studies of historical and contemporary African/Asian interactions." (African American Review)

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: "Bandung Is Done"Vijay PrashadIntroduction: AfroAsian EncountersHeike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon SteenPart I Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities1 "A Race So Different from Our Own"Sanda Mayzaw Lwin2 Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert Cynthia Tolentino3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities Eleanor Ty4 One People, One Nation? Creolization and Its Tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese Fiction Lourdes Lopez Ropero5 Black-and-Tan Fantasies: Interracial Contact between Blacks and South Asians in Film Samir DayalPart II Confronting the Color Hierarchy6 "It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words"Heike Raphael-Hernandez7 Chutney, Metissage, and Other Mixed MetaphorsContexts Gita Rajan8 These Are the BreaksOliver WangPart III Performing AfroAsian Identities9 Racing American ModernityShannon Steen10 Black Bodies/Yellow MasksDeborah Elizabeth Whaley11 The Rush Hour of Black/Asian Coalitions?Mita Banerjee12 Performing Postmodernist PassingCathy Covell WaegnerPart IV Celebrating Unity13 Persisting SolidaritiesBill V. Mullen14 Internationalism and JusticeGreg Robinson15 "Jazz That Eats Rice"David W. Stowe16 Kickin' the White Man's AssFred HoAfterword: Toward a Black Paci?c Gary Y. OkihiroAbout the Contributors Index