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.
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