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Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Contributor(s): Anderson, Crystal S. (Author)
ISBN: 1496802535     ISBN-13: 9781496802538
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $34.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 305.895
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 222 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
 
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In Beyond "The Chinese Connection," Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring [1992], and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle [1996]); films (Rush Hour 2 [2001], Unleashed [2005], and The Matrix trilogy [1999-2003]); and Japanese animation (Samurai Champloo [2004]), all of which feature cross-cultural conversations. In exploring the ways in which writers and artists use this transferal, Anderson traces and tests the limits of how Afro-Asian cultural production interrogates conceptions of race, ethnic identity, politics, and transnational exchange.

Ultimately, this book reads contemporary black/Asian cultural fusions through the recurrent themes established by the films of Bruce Lee, which were among the first--and certainly most popular--works to use this exchange explicitly. As a result of such films as Enter the Dragon (1973), The Chinese Connection (1972), and The Big Boss (1971), Lee emerges as both a cross-cultural hero and global cultural icon who resonates with the experiences of African American, Asian American and Asian youth in the 1970s. Lee's films and iconic imagery prefigure themes that reflect cross-cultural negotiations with global culture in post-1990 Afro-Asian cultural production.

Contributor Bio(s): Anderson, Crystal S.: - Crystal S. Anderson is an associate professor of English at Elon University. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Extrapolation, and Ethnic Studies Review.