Investigates 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 origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.
Investigates 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 origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.
Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas Kathleen López
Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity Martin A. Tsang
Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries Junyoung Verónica Kim
Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba Adrian H. Hearn
Part II: Historicities: Interlude Kathleen López
Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba José Amador
Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i Julia Katz
Part III: Lives / Representations: Interlude Kathleen López
Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences Ann Kaneko
Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi Ignacio López-Calvo
Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas Kathleen López
Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity Martin A. Tsang
Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries Junyoung Verónica Kim
Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba Adrian H. Hearn
Part II: Historicities: Interlude Kathleen López
Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba José Amador
Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i Julia Katz
Part III: Lives / Representations: Interlude Kathleen López
Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences Ann Kaneko
Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi Ignacio López-Calvo
Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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