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Afroasian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
Contributor(s): Raphael-Hernandez, Heike (Editor), Steen, Shannon (Editor), Prashad, Vijay (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0814775810     ISBN-13: 9780814775813
Publisher: New York University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2006
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Annotation: With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro

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"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

How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado," Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?

AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political positions, scholars from history, literature, media, and the visual arts here trace their interconnections and interactions, as well as the tensions between the two groups that sometimes arise. AfroAsian Encounters probes beyond popular culture to trace the historical lineage of these coalitions from the late nineteenth century to the present.

A foreword by Vijay Prashadsets the volume in the context of the Bandung conference half a century ago, and an afterword by Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a "Black Pacific." From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the current popularity of black/Asian "buddy films" like "Rush Hour," AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into studies of race and ethnicity and a crucial look at the shifting meaning of race in the twenty-first century.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- History | United States - General
Dewey: 305.895
LCCN: 2006016122
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.16" W x 8.98" L (1.11 lbs) 342 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps
 
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With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?
AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political positions, scholars from history, literature, media, and the visual arts here trace their interconnections and interactions, as well as the tensions between the two groups that sometimes arise. AfroAsian Encounters probes beyond popular culture to trace the historical lineage of these coalitions from the late nineteenth century to the present.
A foreword by Vijay Prashad sets the volume in the context of the Bandung conference half a century ago, and an afterword by Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a "Black Pacific." From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the current popularity of black/Asian "buddy films" like Rush Hour, AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into studies of race and ethnicity and a crucial look at the shifting meaning of race in the twenty-first century.

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