CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas
6. Introduction 9
7. 1. Yellow Blindness in a Black-and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity 13
8. 2. Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries 34
9. 3. Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba 56
10. PART II. Historicities: Interlude
11. Introduction 83
12. 4. Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba 85
13. 5. The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i 104
14. PART III. Lives/Representations: Interlude
15. Introduction 133
16. 6. Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences 135
17. 7. Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati 146
18. 8. Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi 158
19. Bibliography 185
20. Notes on Contributors 197
21. Index 201