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Tag: Journal of Asian American Studies
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Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 18, Number 1, February 2015 pages 107-109 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0003 Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English University of Maryland Anderson, Crystal S., Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Afro-Asian…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 by Julia H. Lee (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 3, October 2013 pages 340-342 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0025 Caroline H. Yang, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, English University of Illinois, Chicago Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures,…
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“Citizen Sure Thing” or “Jus’ Foreigner”?: Half-Caste Citizenship and the Family Romance in Onoto Watanna’s Orientalist Fiction Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.0.0067 pages 81-105 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio In “a contract” (1902), one of Winnifred…
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In 1898, journalist Louis J. Beck offered the reading public what he saw as a valuable case study in “heredity and racial traits and tendencies.” This case study was none other than the infamous “half-breed” criminal George Washington Appo (1856–1930), whose name was virtually a household word for New Yorkers of the time.
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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 15, Number 2, June 2012 pages 225-227 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2012.0017 Jennifer Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In her acknowledgements, Leslie Bow admits that she began her research project in…
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Filipinos in Nueva España: Filipino-Mexican Relations, Mestizaje, and Identity in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 389-416 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University This essay examines how the…
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“The Face Is the Road Map”: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980–1988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential…