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Beyond The Chinese Connection
Crystal S. Anderson
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
In
Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s
Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed’s
Japanese by Spring [1992], and Paul Beatty’s
The White Boy Shuffle [1996]); films (
Rush Hour 2 [2001],
Unleashed [2005], and
The Matrix trilogy [1999-2003]); and Japanese animation (
Samurai Champloo [2004]), all of which feature cross-cultural conversations. In exploring the ways in which writers and artists use this transferal, Anderson traces and tests the limits of how Afro-Asian cultural production interrogates conceptions of race, ethnic identity, politics, and transnational exchange.
Ultimately, this book reads contemporary black/Asian cultural fusions through the recurrent themes established by the films of Bruce Lee, which were among the first—and certainly most popular—works to use this exchange explicitly. As a result of such films as
Enter the Dragon (1973),
The Chinese Connection (1972), and
The Big Boss (1971), Lee emerges as both a cross-cultural hero and global cultural icon who resonates with the experiences of African American, Asian American and Asian youth in the 1970s. Lee’s films and iconic imagery prefigure themes that reflect cross-cultural negotiations with global culture in post-1990 Afro-Asian cultural production.
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Ulysses S. Kwan, politics, Dr. Yamato, film, The White Boy Shuffle, Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, African American Studies, riots, solidarity, ethnic identity, Samurai Champloo, Neo, Enter the Dragon, The Matrix trilogy, Tang Lung, The Big Boss, Hong Kong, Bruce Lee, hybridity, identity, friendship, Rush Hour 2, marginalization, Cowboy Bebop, stereotypes, Unleashed, transnational exchange, camaraderie, immigrants, Gunnar Kaufman, Ishmael Reed, anime, masculinity, Frank Chin, hip-hop, Paul Beatty, Gunga Din Highway, Morpheus, Popular Culture, Japanese by Spring, Asian American Studies, Detective Lee, Detective Carter, cultural fusions, race, Mugen, imperialism, cultural emulsion