Encounters
People of Asian Descent in the Americas
Herausgeber: Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni; Strobel, Leny Mendoza; Srikanth, Rajini
Encounters
People of Asian Descent in the Americas
Herausgeber: Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni; Strobel, Leny Mendoza; Srikanth, Rajini
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People of Asian descent have lived for centuries in North and South America, where they have been actively involved in the creation of multicultural, multiethnic societies. This groundbreaking anthology explores their experiences among ethnic and cultural groups in a unique collection of works by and about Asian Americans. Utilizing a rich blend of analytical, autobiographical, biographical and narrative essays, oral histories, fiction, photography, and artwork, the anthology focuses especially on the interactions of Asians with others outside the dominant culture.
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People of Asian descent have lived for centuries in North and South America, where they have been actively involved in the creation of multicultural, multiethnic societies. This groundbreaking anthology explores their experiences among ethnic and cultural groups in a unique collection of works by and about Asian Americans. Utilizing a rich blend of analytical, autobiographical, biographical and narrative essays, oral histories, fiction, photography, and artwork, the anthology focuses especially on the interactions of Asians with others outside the dominant culture.
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- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 322
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1999
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 525g
- ISBN-13: 9780847691456
- ISBN-10: 0847691454
- Artikelnr.: 21208442
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 322
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1999
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 525g
- ISBN-13: 9780847691456
- ISBN-10: 0847691454
- Artikelnr.: 21208442
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Roshni Rustomji-Kerns is professor emerita at Sonoma State University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies, Bolivar House, at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Blood Into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War and editor of Living in America: Fiction and Poetry by South Asian Writers.
Introduction
Part I: In Search of My Ombligo: Locating the Family
Chapter 1: China in Mexico: Yesterday's Encounter and Today's Discovery
Chapter 2: Con Tacto
Chapter 3: Sophie's Conflicts
Chapter 4: The Boy under the Bridge
Chapter 5: In Search of My Ombligo
Chapter 6: We Sail across Memories
Chapter 7: Lessons from the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama
Chapter 8: La Búsquedad de la Identidad-In Search of an Identity
Chapter 9: American Dreams: An Original Play
Chapter 10: A Portrait of the Poet: Small-Kid Time
Chapter 11: Where Are You Now?
Chapter 12: The President's Palace
Chapter 13: Dreaming All the Way Home
Part II: The Politics of the Cool: Locating Community
Chapter 14: Race Construction and Race Relations: Chinese and Blacks in
Nineteenth Century Cuba
Chapter 15: Japanese Peruvians and Their Ethnic Encounters
Chapter 16: The Great Day for Arlen
Chapter 17: Land, Culture, and the Power of Money: Assimilation and
Resistance of Okinawan Immigrants in Bolivia
Chapter 18: Spanish
Chapter 19: Chattanooga Days
Chapter 20: On Ice Cube's "Black Korea"
Chapter 21: Trial and Error: Representations of a Recent Past
Chapter 22: The Politics of the Cool: Indian American Youth Culture in New
York City
Chapter 23: The Story of the Double R
Chapter 24: Luis Nishizawa: Portrait of a Nisei Artist
Chapter 25: Ethnic Preferences: The Positive Minority
Chapter 26: Phuri Sherpa: Nepal and Mexico in California
Part III: Volcán de Izalco, Amén: Locating the Body and the Land
Chapter 27: Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American
Chapter 28: Santos y Sombras
Chapter 29: Never Look Down in Chinatown
Chapter 30: Race Markers Transgressors: Mapping a Racial Kaleidoscope
within an (Im)migrant Landscape
Chapter 31: Upon Hearing Beverly Glen Copeland
Chapter 32: Paki Go Home
Chapter 33: Soho, Southhall, Brixton; Chinatown in New York
Chapter 34: Archipelago
Chapter 35: De Oro
Chapter 36: Queen Mariachi
Chapter 37: My Homes
Chapter 38: Despeinados
Chapter 39: The Valley of Dead Air
Chapter 40: Self-Portrait Dressed as a Mexican
Chapter 41: La Nina del Robozo
Chapter 42: Her Body: A Stage, an Altar
Chapter 43: Hotel Room (Mayaro, Trinidad)
Chapter 44: Mayaro Sea-Sculpture
Chapter 45: The Interview
Chapter 46: Ganesh
Chapter 47: When Nana Died
Part I: In Search of My Ombligo: Locating the Family
Chapter 1: China in Mexico: Yesterday's Encounter and Today's Discovery
Chapter 2: Con Tacto
Chapter 3: Sophie's Conflicts
Chapter 4: The Boy under the Bridge
Chapter 5: In Search of My Ombligo
Chapter 6: We Sail across Memories
Chapter 7: Lessons from the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama
Chapter 8: La Búsquedad de la Identidad-In Search of an Identity
Chapter 9: American Dreams: An Original Play
Chapter 10: A Portrait of the Poet: Small-Kid Time
Chapter 11: Where Are You Now?
Chapter 12: The President's Palace
Chapter 13: Dreaming All the Way Home
Part II: The Politics of the Cool: Locating Community
Chapter 14: Race Construction and Race Relations: Chinese and Blacks in
Nineteenth Century Cuba
Chapter 15: Japanese Peruvians and Their Ethnic Encounters
Chapter 16: The Great Day for Arlen
Chapter 17: Land, Culture, and the Power of Money: Assimilation and
Resistance of Okinawan Immigrants in Bolivia
Chapter 18: Spanish
Chapter 19: Chattanooga Days
Chapter 20: On Ice Cube's "Black Korea"
Chapter 21: Trial and Error: Representations of a Recent Past
Chapter 22: The Politics of the Cool: Indian American Youth Culture in New
York City
Chapter 23: The Story of the Double R
Chapter 24: Luis Nishizawa: Portrait of a Nisei Artist
Chapter 25: Ethnic Preferences: The Positive Minority
Chapter 26: Phuri Sherpa: Nepal and Mexico in California
Part III: Volcán de Izalco, Amén: Locating the Body and the Land
Chapter 27: Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American
Chapter 28: Santos y Sombras
Chapter 29: Never Look Down in Chinatown
Chapter 30: Race Markers Transgressors: Mapping a Racial Kaleidoscope
within an (Im)migrant Landscape
Chapter 31: Upon Hearing Beverly Glen Copeland
Chapter 32: Paki Go Home
Chapter 33: Soho, Southhall, Brixton; Chinatown in New York
Chapter 34: Archipelago
Chapter 35: De Oro
Chapter 36: Queen Mariachi
Chapter 37: My Homes
Chapter 38: Despeinados
Chapter 39: The Valley of Dead Air
Chapter 40: Self-Portrait Dressed as a Mexican
Chapter 41: La Nina del Robozo
Chapter 42: Her Body: A Stage, an Altar
Chapter 43: Hotel Room (Mayaro, Trinidad)
Chapter 44: Mayaro Sea-Sculpture
Chapter 45: The Interview
Chapter 46: Ganesh
Chapter 47: When Nana Died
Introduction
Part I: In Search of My Ombligo: Locating the Family
Chapter 1: China in Mexico: Yesterday's Encounter and Today's Discovery
Chapter 2: Con Tacto
Chapter 3: Sophie's Conflicts
Chapter 4: The Boy under the Bridge
Chapter 5: In Search of My Ombligo
Chapter 6: We Sail across Memories
Chapter 7: Lessons from the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama
Chapter 8: La Búsquedad de la Identidad-In Search of an Identity
Chapter 9: American Dreams: An Original Play
Chapter 10: A Portrait of the Poet: Small-Kid Time
Chapter 11: Where Are You Now?
Chapter 12: The President's Palace
Chapter 13: Dreaming All the Way Home
Part II: The Politics of the Cool: Locating Community
Chapter 14: Race Construction and Race Relations: Chinese and Blacks in
Nineteenth Century Cuba
Chapter 15: Japanese Peruvians and Their Ethnic Encounters
Chapter 16: The Great Day for Arlen
Chapter 17: Land, Culture, and the Power of Money: Assimilation and
Resistance of Okinawan Immigrants in Bolivia
Chapter 18: Spanish
Chapter 19: Chattanooga Days
Chapter 20: On Ice Cube's "Black Korea"
Chapter 21: Trial and Error: Representations of a Recent Past
Chapter 22: The Politics of the Cool: Indian American Youth Culture in New
York City
Chapter 23: The Story of the Double R
Chapter 24: Luis Nishizawa: Portrait of a Nisei Artist
Chapter 25: Ethnic Preferences: The Positive Minority
Chapter 26: Phuri Sherpa: Nepal and Mexico in California
Part III: Volcán de Izalco, Amén: Locating the Body and the Land
Chapter 27: Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American
Chapter 28: Santos y Sombras
Chapter 29: Never Look Down in Chinatown
Chapter 30: Race Markers Transgressors: Mapping a Racial Kaleidoscope
within an (Im)migrant Landscape
Chapter 31: Upon Hearing Beverly Glen Copeland
Chapter 32: Paki Go Home
Chapter 33: Soho, Southhall, Brixton; Chinatown in New York
Chapter 34: Archipelago
Chapter 35: De Oro
Chapter 36: Queen Mariachi
Chapter 37: My Homes
Chapter 38: Despeinados
Chapter 39: The Valley of Dead Air
Chapter 40: Self-Portrait Dressed as a Mexican
Chapter 41: La Nina del Robozo
Chapter 42: Her Body: A Stage, an Altar
Chapter 43: Hotel Room (Mayaro, Trinidad)
Chapter 44: Mayaro Sea-Sculpture
Chapter 45: The Interview
Chapter 46: Ganesh
Chapter 47: When Nana Died
Part I: In Search of My Ombligo: Locating the Family
Chapter 1: China in Mexico: Yesterday's Encounter and Today's Discovery
Chapter 2: Con Tacto
Chapter 3: Sophie's Conflicts
Chapter 4: The Boy under the Bridge
Chapter 5: In Search of My Ombligo
Chapter 6: We Sail across Memories
Chapter 7: Lessons from the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama
Chapter 8: La Búsquedad de la Identidad-In Search of an Identity
Chapter 9: American Dreams: An Original Play
Chapter 10: A Portrait of the Poet: Small-Kid Time
Chapter 11: Where Are You Now?
Chapter 12: The President's Palace
Chapter 13: Dreaming All the Way Home
Part II: The Politics of the Cool: Locating Community
Chapter 14: Race Construction and Race Relations: Chinese and Blacks in
Nineteenth Century Cuba
Chapter 15: Japanese Peruvians and Their Ethnic Encounters
Chapter 16: The Great Day for Arlen
Chapter 17: Land, Culture, and the Power of Money: Assimilation and
Resistance of Okinawan Immigrants in Bolivia
Chapter 18: Spanish
Chapter 19: Chattanooga Days
Chapter 20: On Ice Cube's "Black Korea"
Chapter 21: Trial and Error: Representations of a Recent Past
Chapter 22: The Politics of the Cool: Indian American Youth Culture in New
York City
Chapter 23: The Story of the Double R
Chapter 24: Luis Nishizawa: Portrait of a Nisei Artist
Chapter 25: Ethnic Preferences: The Positive Minority
Chapter 26: Phuri Sherpa: Nepal and Mexico in California
Part III: Volcán de Izalco, Amén: Locating the Body and the Land
Chapter 27: Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American
Chapter 28: Santos y Sombras
Chapter 29: Never Look Down in Chinatown
Chapter 30: Race Markers Transgressors: Mapping a Racial Kaleidoscope
within an (Im)migrant Landscape
Chapter 31: Upon Hearing Beverly Glen Copeland
Chapter 32: Paki Go Home
Chapter 33: Soho, Southhall, Brixton; Chinatown in New York
Chapter 34: Archipelago
Chapter 35: De Oro
Chapter 36: Queen Mariachi
Chapter 37: My Homes
Chapter 38: Despeinados
Chapter 39: The Valley of Dead Air
Chapter 40: Self-Portrait Dressed as a Mexican
Chapter 41: La Nina del Robozo
Chapter 42: Her Body: A Stage, an Altar
Chapter 43: Hotel Room (Mayaro, Trinidad)
Chapter 44: Mayaro Sea-Sculpture
Chapter 45: The Interview
Chapter 46: Ganesh
Chapter 47: When Nana Died







