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Book Alllooksame

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francesco Bonami
  • Publisher : Mondadori Electa
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Alllooksame written by Francesco Bonami and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates the work of 40 artists, all with Asian roots but heterogenous backgrounds, experiences and languages. Working in diverse media the featured artists range from those firmly established on the international stage, as well as several lesser known names of the future, all united by a quality of work.

Book Digitizing Race

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Nakamura
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2007-12-20
  • ISBN : 1452913307
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Digitizing Race written by Lisa Nakamura and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Nakamura refers to case studies of popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet, such as pregnancy websites, instant messaging, and online petitions and quizzes, to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures.

Book East Main Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shilpa Dave
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2005-05
  • ISBN : 0814719635
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book East Main Street written by Shilpa Dave and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture.

Book Metropolis

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sensoria

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  • Author : McKenzie Wark
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-08-18
  • ISBN : 1788735080
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Sensoria written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka. Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.

Book English with an Accent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosina Lippi-Green
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 1136597298
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book English with an Accent written by Rosina Lippi-Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations. This second edition has been reorganized and revised to include: new dedicated chapters on Latino English and Asian American English discussion questions, further reading, and suggested classroom exercises, updated examples from the classroom, the judicial system, the media, and corporate culture a discussion of the long-term implications of the Ebonics debate a brand-new companion website with a glossary of key terms and links to audio, video, and images relevant to the each chapter's content. English with an Accent is essential reading for students with interests in attitudes and discrimination towards language.

Book Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife  3 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife 3 volumes written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife. Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences. The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.

Book Adweek

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Adweek written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature written by Rachel Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume: Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories, themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature Addresses historical periods, geographies and literary identities Looks at different genre, form and interdisciplinarity With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American, Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature. Contributors: Christine Bacareza Balance, Victor Bascara, Leslie Bow, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Tina Chen, Anne Anlin Cheng, Mark Chiang, Patricia P. Chu, Robert Diaz, Pin-chia Feng, Tara Fickle, Donald Goellnicht, Helena Grice, Eric Hayot, Tamara C. Ho, Hsuan L. Hsu, Mark C. Jerng, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Daniel Y. Kim, Jodi Kim, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Rachel C. Lee, Jinqi Ling, Colleen Lye, Sean Metzger, Susette Min, Susan Y. Najita, Viet Thanh Nguyen, erin Khuê Ninh, Eve Oishi, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Steven Salaita, Shu-mei Shi, Rajini Srikanth, Brian Kim Stefans, Erin Suzuki, Theresa Tensuan, Cynthia Tolentino, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Eleanor Ty, Traise Yamamoto, Timothy Yu.

Book Minor China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hentyle Yapp
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-12
  • ISBN : 1478013060
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Minor China written by Hentyle Yapp and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minor China Hentyle Yapp analyzes contemporary Chinese art as it circulates on the global art market to outline the limitations of Western understandings of non-Western art. Yapp reconsiders the all-too-common narratives about Chinese art that celebrate the heroic artist who embodies political resistance against the authoritarian state. These narratives, as Yapp establishes, prevent Chinese art, aesthetics, and politics from being discussed in the West outside the terms of Western liberalism and notions of the “universal.” Yapp engages with art ranging from photography and performance to curation and installations to foreground what he calls the minor as method—tracking aesthetic and intellectual practices that challenge the predetermined ideas and political concerns that uphold dominant conceptions of history, the state, and the subject. By examining the minor in the work of artists such as Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huan, Cao Fei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carol Yinghua Lu, and others, Yapp demonstrates that the minor allows for discussing non-Western art more broadly and for reconfiguring dominant political and aesthetic institutions and structures.

Book The Band

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Ma-Kellams
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-04-16
  • ISBN : 166801839X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Band written by Christine Ma-Kellams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This could very well be the first great K-Pop literary phenomenon.” —Debutiful, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Perfect for fans of Mouth to Mouth and Black Buck, this whip-smart, darkly funny, and biting debut follows a psychologist with a savior complex who offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol on the run. Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he’s abruptly cancelled. To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married with children and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union both seductive and incredibly problematic. Meanwhile, Duri’s cancellation catapults not only a series of repressed memories from his music producer’s earlier years about the original girl group whose tragic disbanding preceded his current success, but also a spiral of violent interactions that culminates in an award show event with reverberations that forever change the fates of both the band members and the music industry. In its indicting portrayal of mental health and public obsession, fandom, and cancel culture, The Band considers the many ways in which love and celebrity can devolve into something far more sinister when their demands are unmet.

Book East Main Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shilpa Dave
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2005-05
  • ISBN : 0814719627
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book East Main Street written by Shilpa Dave and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture.

Book Big Little Man

Download or read book Big Little Man written by Alex Tizon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist presents an intimate assessment of the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian-American male that traces his own experiences as an immigrant under the constraints of American cultural stereotypes.

Book Dreamer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Myron L. Humble
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2012-06
  • ISBN : 147593338X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Dreamer written by Myron L. Humble and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Hunter is a dreamer who longs to become a pilot. His classmates and teachers have nicknamed him the daydreamer. Despite his best efforts to pay attention, Michael often finds himself dreaming of flying. He also dreams of Karen McCormick, the quarterback's girlfriend. When a chance encounter with a pilot gives him the opportunity to discover what flying is really like, Michael becomes determined to do whatever it takes to succeed so that he can eventually enroll in flight school. The only problem is, the more Michael succeeds at his school work or other activities, the more prideful he becomes. And although his mother warns him to let go of his pride and put his faith in the Lord, Michael believes he has everything under control and that he can take on the world. After battling bullies, rumors, and winning the girl of his dreams, it seems that nothing can slow him down. But as his mother says, Pride goes before a fall. Will it be the key to Michael's undoing? Read more in Dreamer: The Rise and Fall of the Flyer.

Book Making Photography Matter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cara A. Finnegan
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2015-05-30
  • ISBN : 0252097319
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Making Photography Matter written by Cara A. Finnegan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. From the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child laborers and Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only persuasion but action, as well.

Book The Race Is Not to the Swift

Download or read book The Race Is Not to the Swift written by Tu Ji Fun and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey in real time with Steve, a burned-out Protestant minister, as he babysits his daughter’s classmate Adi. Between the crowing of the school bell bookending the day, spend six hours traveling with them on the written page (or make your way to Vancouver and follow along by foot) as they explore their neighborhood, experiencing both the quotidian and fantastic. By turns haunting and humorous, The race is not to the swift is an original novel: a moving meditation on the nature of time and memory, and a playful experiment in durational realism, each second in fictional time corresponding to a second in actual time. Tu Jì Fun pushes the boundaries of what fiction can be and do in this incredibly inventive debut novel.