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Imagining Asia in the Americas Asian American Studies Today This series publishes scholarship on cutting-e dge themes and issues, includ- ing broadly based histories of both long- standing and more recent immigrant populations; focused investigations of ethnic enclaves and understudied sub- groups; and examinations of relationships among various cultural, regional, and socioeconomic communities. Of particular interest are subject areas in need of further critical inquiry, including transnationalism, globalization, homeland polity, and other pertinent topics. Series Editor: Huping Ling, Truman State University Stephanie Hinnershitz, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900– 1968 Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Haiming Liu, From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States Jun Okada, Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements Kim Park Nelson, Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Expe- riences, and Racial Exceptionalism Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee-D iStefano, eds., Imagining Asia in the Americas David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu, eds., Techno- Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media Imagining Asia in the Americas EDITED BY ZELIDETH MARÍA RIVAS AND DEBBIE LEE- DISTEFANO RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Rivas, Zelideth María, 1979– | Lee- DiStefano, Debbie. Title: Imagining Asia in the Americas / edited by Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee- DiStefano. Description: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016. | Series: Asian American studies today | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015047307| ISBN 9780813585215 (hardcover : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9780813585208 (paperback : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9780813585222 (ePub) | ISBN 9780813585239 (Web PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Asia— Relations— America. | America— Relations— Asia. | Asia— Foreign public opinion, American. | Asia—F oreign public opinion, Caribbean. | Asia— Foreign public opinion, Latin American. | Public opinion—A merica. | Asians— America— Social conditions. | Immigrants— America— Social conditions. | Transnationalism— Social aspects— America. | Community life— America. Classification: LCC DS33.4.A45 I47 2016 | DDC 303.48/25097—d c23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047307 A British Cataloging- in- Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2016 by Rutgers, The State University Individual chapters copyright © 2016 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our website: http:// rutgerspress .rutgers .edu Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 DEBBIE LEE- DISTEFANO PART I Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas KATHLEEN LÓPEZ 9 1 Yellow Blindness in a Black- and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro- Cuban Religiosity 13 MARTIN A. TSANG 2 Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries 34 JUNYOUNG VERÓNICA KIM 3 Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba 56 ADRIAN H. HEARN PART II Historicities: Interlude KATHLEEN LÓPEZ 83 4 Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth- Century Cuba 85 JOSÉ AMADOR v vi CONTENTS 5 The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth- Century Hawai‘i 104 JULIA KATZ PART III Lives/Representations: Interlude KATHLEEN LÓPEZ 133 6 Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences 135 ANN KANEKO 7 Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati 146 ROSHNI RUSTOMJI- KERNS 8 Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin- Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi 158 IGNACIO LÓPEZ- CALVO Bibliography 185 Notes on Contributors 197 Index 201 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS O n November 4, 2011, we sat at a pho restaurant after a conference with Roshni Rustomji-K erns and Alejandro Lee, lamenting the fact that our panels on Asians in Latin America were sparsely attended. Instead of feeling discouraged, we thought how wonderful it would be to host our own conference that high- lighted the intersections of Asian, Latin American, and Asian American Studies. In 2012, under Debbie’s guidance, Southeast Missouri State University hosted the first symposium of Asians in the Americas with Karen Tei Yamashita as the keynote speaker. The symposium continued the next year in 2013 at Pepperdine University with David Simonowitz as the organizer and Ann Kaneko as the key- note speaker. In 2014, the symposium grew larger, coming to Rutgers University through Kathleen López featuring Curtis Chin, Konrad Aderer, Lisa Yun, and Gaiutra Bahadur. Finally, in 2015, the symposium was held at La Salle University through the organization of Luisa Ossa with a guest lecture by Melanie Herzog. These symposia would not have been possible without the co-o rganizers Ale- jandro Lee, Rick H. Lee, Mey-Y en Moriuchi, Hsiao-P ing Hu Biehl, and Tara Carr- Lemke. This volume emerged from these four symposia. The editors would like to thank all the participants in these four sympo- sia for contributing to the volume through thoughtful questions and com- ments after each presentation: Alejandro Lee, Junyoung Verónica Kim, Roshni Rustomji- Kerns, Ann Kaneko, León Chang Shik, Saskia Hertlein, Philip Anthony Ramirez, David Simonowitz, Juan Ishikawa, Chisu Teresa Ko, Jennifer Bengs- ton, Martín Valadez, Anne-M arie Lee- Loy, Justina Hwang, Jungwon Park, Koichi Hagimoto, Anjoli Roy, Colin Root, Danielle Seid, Hailing Guan, Guneeta Bhalla, Kathleen López, Swati Rana, Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, James Ong, George Carlsen, Alan Tollefson, Benjamín Narváez, Julia Katz, Tao Leigh Goffe, Yeon-S oo Kim, Roanne Kantor, Anita Baksh, Kavitha Ramsamy, K. Kale Yu, Apoorva Jadhav, Sayu Bhojwani, Ana Paulina Lee, Augusto Espiritu, Maria Tham, Eric Hung, Fredy González, Elliott Young, Erika Lee, Allison E. White, Malathi M. Iyengar, Jessica M. Falcone, Nicholas Birns, Ana Maria Candela, Rosanne Sia, Lisa Yun, Andre K. Deckrow, Hsiao- Ping Hu Biehl, Jiahong Wang, Christina Lee, Mey- Yen Moriuchi, Dennis Carr, Lesley Shipley, Luisa Ossa, and Elena Valdez. vii viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Lastly, this volume would not have been possible without the support and contributions of many people. Dania Abreu- Torres, Michelle Nasser, Bridget Christine Arce, and Kathleen López read proposal drafts. Zack Rakes tirelessly worked on the volume’s bibliography. Charles DiStefano helped format figures. Marshall University College of Liberal Arts Dean Robert Bookwalter and South- east Missouri State University Dean Francisco Barrios and Chair of the Depart- ment of Global Cultures and Languages Dr. Toni Alexander generously provided funding for permissions. And, finally, we would like to thank our families who supported us through symposia planning, hosting, and travel, all of which made this edited volume possible. Imagining Asia in the Americas
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