Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Sounds Authentic?
6. One Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC 35
7. Two Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz 69
8. 2. Popular Places
9. Three. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction 111
10. Four Visual Reconnaissance 130
11. Five Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru 150
12. Six The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness 161
13. 3. Consuming Cultures
14. Seven Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences 179
15. Eight Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media 194
16. Nine Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture 221
17. 4. Troubled Technologies
18. Ten Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures 247
19. Eleven Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois 271
20. Twelve Race and Software 305
21. Bibliography 335
22. Contributors 355
23. Index 359