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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: “Bandung Is Done”—Passages in AfroAsian Epistemology xi
5. Introduction: AfroAsian Encounters—Culture, History, Politics 1
6. Contributors 1
7. Part I Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities
8. 1 “A Race So Different from Our Own”: Segregation, Exclusion, and the Myth of Mobility 17
9. 2 Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert 34
10. 3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities 50
11. 4 One People, One Nation? Creolization and Its Tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese Fiction 68
12. 5 Black-and-Tan Fantasies: Interracial Contact between Blacks and South Asians in Film 86
13. Part II. Confronting the Color Hierarchy
14. 6 “It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words”: The Vietnam War in African American Novels 103
15. 7 Chutney, Métissage, and Other Mixed Metaphors: Reading Indo Caribbean Art in Afro Caribbean Contexts 124
16. 8 These Are the Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis)Connections 146
17. Part III. Performing AfroAsian Identities
18. 9 Racing American Modernity: Black Atlantic Negotiations of Asia and the “Swing”Mikados 167
19. 10 Black Bodies/Yellow Masks: The Orientalist Aesthetic in Hip-Hop and Black Visual Culture 188
20. 11 The Rush Hour of Black/Asian Coalitions? Jackie Chan and Blackface Minstrelsy 204
21. 12 Performing Postmodernist Passing: Nikki S. Lee, Tuff, and Ghost Dog in Yellowface/Blackface 223
22. Part IV. Celebrating Unity
23. 13 Persisting Solidarities: Tracing the AfroAsian Thread in U.S. Literature and Culture 245
24. 14 Internationalism and Justice: Paul Robeson, Asia, and Asian Americans 260
25. 15 “Jazz That Eats Rice”: Toshiko Akiyoshi’s Roots Music 277
26. 16 Kickin’ the White Man’s Ass: Black Power, Aesthetics, and the Asian Martial Arts 295
27. Afterword: Toward a Black Pacific 313
28. About the Contributors 331
29. Index 335