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.

Contents

Acknowledgments
 

Introduction

Debbie Lee-DiStefano
 

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 

Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano