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Global Asian American Popular Cultures This page intentionally left blank Global Asian American Popular Cultures Edited by Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York www.nyupress.org © 2016 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. ISBN: 978-1-4798-6709-7 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-4798-1573-9 (paperback) For Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data, please contact the Library of Congress. New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook To our families This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren Part I. Stars and Celebrities 1. Trans-Pacific Flows: Globalization and Hybridity in Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong Films 15 Daryl Joji Maeda 2. “I’m Thankful for Manny”: Manny Pacquiao, Pugilistic Nationalism, and the Filipina/o Body 27 Constancio Arnaldo 3. A History of Race and He(te)rosexuality in the Movies: James Shigeta’s Asian American Male Stardom 46 Celine Parreñas Shimizu 4. Model Maternity: Amy Chua and Asian American Motherhood 61 Julia H. Lee 5. YouTube Made the TV Star: KevJumba’s Star Appearance on The Amazing Race 17 74 Vincent Pham and Kent A. Ono 6. David Choe’s “KOREANS GONE BAD”: The LA Riots, Comparative Racialization, and Branding a Politics of Deviance 89 Wendy Sung Part II. Making Community 7. From the Mekong to the Merrimack and Back: The Transnational Terrains of Cambodian American Rap 107 Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 8. “You’ll Learn Much about Pakistanis from Listening to Radio”: Pakistani Radio Programming in Houston, Texas 124 Ahmed Afzal vii viii | Contents 9. Online Asian American Popular Culture, Digitization, and Museums 139 Konrad Ng 10. Asian American Food Blogging as Racial Branding: Rewriting the Search for Authenticity 151 Lori Kido Lopez 11. Picturing the Past: Drawing Together Vietnamese American Transnational History 165 Timothy K. August Part III. Wading in the Mainstream 12. Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Tourist Films and the Mixed-Race Utopias of U.S. Empire 183 Camilla Fojas 13. Post-9/11 Global Migration in Battlestar Galactica 197 Leilani Nishime 14. “Did You Think When I Opened My Mouth?” Asian American Indie Rock and the Middling Noise of Racialization 214 Douglas Ishii 15. Winning the Bee: South Asians, Spelling Bee Competitions, and American Racial Branding 228 Shilpa Davé 16. The Blood Sport of Cooking: On Asian American Chefs and Television 244 Tasha Oren Part IV. Migration and Transnational Popular Culture 17. Curry as Code: Food, Race, and Technology 263 Madhavi Mallapragada 18. Bollywood’s 9/11: Terrorism and Muslim Masculinities in Popular Hindi Cinema 276 Deepti Misri 19. Hybrid Hallyu: The African American Music Tradition in K-Pop 290 Crystal S. Anderson 20. Transnational Beauty Circuits: Asian American Women, Technology, and Circle Contact Lenses 304 Linda Trinh Võ Contents | ix 21. Making Whales out of Peacocks: Virtual Fashion and Asian Female Factory Hands 321 Christopher B. Patterson 22. Failed Returns: The Queer Balikbayan in R. Zamora Linmark’s Leche and Gil Portes’s Miguel/Michelle 335 Robert Diaz About the Contributors 351 Index 355
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