"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

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at New York University.