14. Guilty Pleasures: Keanu Reeves, Superman, and Racial Outing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Globalization and Local Identities
7. 1. Trance-Formations: Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism in Youth Culture 13
8. 2. Making Transnational Vietnamese Music: Sounds of Home and Resistance 32
9. 3. Planet Bollywood: Indian Cinema Abroad 55
10. 4. Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America 72
11. 5. “Pappy’s house”: “Pop” Culture and the Revaluation of a Filipino American “Sixty-Cents” in Guam 95
12. Part II: Cultural Legacy and Memories
13. 6. “Within Each Crack/A Story”: The Political Economy of Queering Filipino American Pasts 117
14. 7. “A Woman Is Nothing”: Valuing the Modern Chinese Woman’s Epic Journey to the West 137
15. 8. Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Ethnic Stardom and the (Dis)Orientalized Romantic Couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown 154
16. 9. Whose Paradise? Hawai‘i, Desire, and the Global-Local Tensions of Popular Culture 183
17. 10. Miss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America 204
18. 11. How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods 222
19. Part III. Ethnicity and Identification
20. 12. Bruce Lee in the Ghetto Connection: Kung Fu Theater and African Americans Reinventing Culture at the Margins 249
21. 13. “Alllooksame”? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web 262
22. 14. Guilty Pleasures: Keanu Reeves, Superman, and Racial Outing 273
23. 15. Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop 292
24. 16. Apu’s Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents 313
25. 17. Secret Asian Man: Angry Asians and the Politics of Cultural Visibility 337
26. About the Contributors 361
27. Index 365