Asian American Studies Today – serie
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24 produkter
Making Asian American Film and Video
History, Institutions, Movements
Av Jun Okada
Häftad, 2015
405 kr
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The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada …
Making Asian American Film and Video
History, Institutions, Movements
Av Jun Okada
Inbunden, 2015
1462 kr
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The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada …
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Av David S. Roh, Betsy Huang m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
541 kr
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What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. …
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Av David S. Roh, Betsy Huang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1681 kr
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What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. …
Invisible Asians
Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story-all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the …
Invisible Asians
Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
Inbunden, 2016
1421 kr
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The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story-all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the …
Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
Häftad, 2015
551 kr
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The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian …
Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
Inbunden, 2015
1681 kr
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The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian …
Race, Religion, and Civil Rights
Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968
Häftad, 2015
400 kr
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Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino …
Race, Religion, and Civil Rights
Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968
Inbunden, 2015
1506 kr
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Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino …
From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express
A History of Chinese Food in the United States
Av Haiming Liu
Häftad, 2015
400 kr
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Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction categoryFinalist in the Culinary History category of the 2016 Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFrom Canton Restaurant to Panda Express takes readers on a compelling journey from the …
Redefining Japaneseness
Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Häftad, 2017
382 kr
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There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cultural dislocation felt by American expats in Japan. But what happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living …
Imagining Asia in the Americas
Av Zelideth María Rivas, Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Häftad, 2016
453 kr
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For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this …
Imagining Asia in the Americas
Av Zelideth María Rivas, Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Inbunden, 2016
1789 kr
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For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this …
Resilient Self
Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
Av Chien-Juh Gu
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, …
Resilient Self
Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
Av Chien-Juh Gu
Inbunden, 2018
1688 kr
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The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, …
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Häftad, 2018
413 kr
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Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of …
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Inbunden, 2018
1688 kr
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Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of …
Transpacific Cartographies
Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- …
Transpacific Cartographies
Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Inbunden, 2023
1997 kr
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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- …
Techno-Orientalism 2.0
New Intersections and Interventions
Av David S. Roh, Betsy Huang m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
463 kr
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Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by …
Making the Human
Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Häftad, 2024
381 kr
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From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of …
Making the Human
Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans
Inbunden, 2024
1444 kr
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From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of …
Techno-Orientalism 2.0
New Intersections and Interventions
Av David S. Roh, Betsy Huang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1625 kr
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Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by …
