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Title Alien encounters [electronic resource] : popular culture in Asian America / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 365 p. : ill.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
Contents Rapping and repping Asian : race, authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang -- Silenced but not silent : Asian Americans and jazz / Kevin Fellezs -- Homicidal tendencies : violence and the global economy in Asian American pulp fiction / Christopher A. Shinn -- Visual reconnaissance / Joan Kee -- Chinese restaurant drive-thru / Indigo Som -- The guru and the cultural politics of placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu -- Cooking up the senses : a critical embodied approach to the study of food and Asian American television audiences / Martin F. Manalansan -- Performing culture in diaspora : assimilation and hybridity in Paris by night videos and Vietnamese American niche media / Nhi T. Lieu -- Indo-Chic : late capitalist orientalism and imperial culture / Sunaina Maira -- Asian American auto/biographies : the gendered limits of consumer citizenship in import subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez -- Bruce Lee I love you : discourses of race and masculinity in the queer superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Race and software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans -- Social life and customs.
Asian Americans -- Study and teaching.
Popular culture -- United States.
United States -- Intellectual life.
United States -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nguyen, Mimi Thi, 1974-
Tu, Thuy Linh N.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822389835
0822389835
9780822339106 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822339102 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822339229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822339226 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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