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Imagining Asia in the Americas
Zelideth María Rivas (Ed.)
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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 struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity? The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of ... Read more
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 struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity? The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Asian American Studies Today
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813585215
SKU
V9780813585215
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About Zelideth María Rivas (Ed.)
ZELIDETH MARÍA RIVAS is an assistant professor of Japanese at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. DEBBIE LEE-DiSTEFANO is a professor of Spanish at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. She is the author of Three Asian-Hispanic Writers from Perú and is coeditor of the Journal of Asians in the Americas and the book series Historical and Cultural Interconnections between ... Read more
Reviews for Imagining Asia in the Americas
"Imagining Asia in the Americas brings fresh ideas and scholarship to the field. Using oral histories and personal experience, the essays in this volume convey a level of intimacy missing from other collections on the Asian diaspora."
Jerry García
author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony
"This excellent volume is ... Read more
Jerry García
author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony
"This excellent volume is ... Read more