East Main Street - Asian American Popular Culture

Klappentext From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. Zusammenfassung By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends! this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies! in all its interdisciplinary richness! to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.

Product details

• Authors: Shilpa (EDT)/ Nishime Dave, Shilpa Davi, Robert G. Lee, LeiLane Nishime, Tasha G. Oren, Carol Spindel
• Assisted by: Shilpa Dave (Editor), LeiLane Nishime (Editor), Leilani Nishime (Editor), Tasha Oren (Editor), Tasha G. Oren (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9780814719633
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1963-3
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore