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AfroAsian Encounters - Culture, History, Politics (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R904
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AfroAsian Encounters - Culture, History, Politics (Paperback, New): Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Shannon Steen

AfroAsian Encounters - Culture, History, Politics (Paperback, New)

Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Shannon Steen; Foreword by Vijay Prashad; Afterword by Gary Okihiro

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With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro

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aSucceeds 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.a
--"Journal of American Ethnic History"

"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

aWhat critical anthologies do best is to present. . . . And AfroAsian Encounters does thata--"Journal of Asian American Studies"

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.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2006
First published: November 2006
Editors: Heike Raphael-Hernandez • Shannon Steen
Foreword by: Vijay Prashad
Afterword by: Gary Okihiro
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 342
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7581-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
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LSN: 0-8147-7581-0
Barcode: 9780814775813

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