"Learned, savvy, and on the pulse, this volume does more than fill a huge gap in popular culture studies. Like the strongest of new entries, it might end up rearranging the entire field."--Andrew Ross, author of "Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai"

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 1
I. Sounds Authentic?
1. Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang 35
2. Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz / Kevin Fellezs 69
II. Popular Places
3. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction / Christopher A. Shinn 111
4. Visual Reconnaissance / Joan Kee 130
5. Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru / Indigo Som 150
6. The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu 161
III. Consuming Cultures
7. Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences / Martin F. Manalansan IV 179
8. Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media / Nhi T. Lieu 194
9. Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture / Sunaina Maira 221
IV. Troubled Technologies
10. Asian American Auto / Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 247
11. Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen 271
12. Race and Software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 305
Bibliography 335
Contributors 355
Index 359

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