Table of Contents: “…The suburbanization of Asian American politics -- Political mobilization and incorporation : an analytical framework -- From exclusion to inclusion : the four stages of Asian American politics -- Locating contemporary political incorporation : the suburb vs. the metropolis -- Cupertino, California : a pan-ethnic suburb in Silicon Valley -- Garden Grove and Westminster, California : Vietnamese American political incorporation in Orange County's "Little Saigon" -- Gardena, California : two generations of a Japanese American majority city council -- Montgomery County, Maryland : emerging Asian American suburbs inside the Washington Beltway -- Sugar Land, Texas : the political awakenings of Asian Americans in a Houston suburb -- Bellevue, Washington : Asian American politics in a Pacific Northwest suburb -- Daly City, California : the barriers to Filipino American political incorporation -- Eau Claire, Wisconsin : the political rise of the Hmong American community -- Fitchburg, Massachusetts : the political incorporation of Asian Americans in a Boston suburb -- Forging ahead : the future political trajectories of Asian Americans.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles / Arthur C. Verge. 15. Japanese-American Women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto. 16. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Griffith --Triangles, squares, circles, and diamonds : the "fasola folk" and their singing tradition / Ron Pen -- The Memphis African American sacred quartet community / Kip Lornell -- Sansei voices in the community : Japanese American musicians in California / Susan M. Asai -- Just being there : making Asian American space in the recording industry / Deborah Wong -- Constructing communities and indentities : riot grrrl New York City / Theo Cateforis and Elena Humphreys.…”

Table of Contents: “…Terror, anger, and patriotism: understanding the resistance of black soldiers during World War II / Douglas Bristol -- Nisei versus Nazi: Japanese American soldiers in World War II / James M. McCaffrey -- Does the sex of the practitioner matter? …”

Table of Contents: “…Richard Banks -- The story of Korematsu: the Japanese-American cases / Neil Gotanda -- The story of Baker v. …”

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Table of Contents: “…/ JungBong Choi -- "Ordinary foreigners" wanted: multinationalization of multicultural questions in a Japanese TV talk show / Koichi Iwabuchi -- The uses of routine: NHK's amateur singing contest in historical perspective / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Scaling the TV station: Fuji Television, digital development, and fictions of a global Tokyo / Stephanie DeBoer -- The dramatic consequences of playing a lover: stars and televisual culture in Japan / Eva Tsai -- Kind participation: postmodern consumption and capital with Japan's telop tv / Aaron Gerow -- Revolutionary girls: from Oscar to Utena / Noriko Aso -- Dream labor in dream factory: Japanese commercial television in the era of market fragmentation / Gabriella Lukacs -- Can't live without happiness: reflexivity and Japanese TV drama / Kelly Hu -- Becoming prodigal Japanese: portraits of Japanese Americans on Japanese television / Christine R. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "To the Farmer in All of Us": Agricultural Citizenship as Racial Gatekeeping; Chapter 1 "Settlers Galore, but No Free Land": White Citizenship and the Right to Land Ownership in Factories in the Field and Of Human Kindness; Chapter 2 From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration; Chapter 3 The "Clouded Citizenship" of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism in Rafu Shimpo, Kashu Mainichi, and Treadmill; Chapter 4 "The Earth Trembled for Days": Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Starter : restaurants, ideal postmodern institutions / David Beriss and David Sutton -- Tight spaces and salsa-stained aprons : bodies at work in American restaurants / Karla Erickson -- Forming family identity in an American Chinese restaurant : one person's transformational process / Michael Hernandez -- Tasting Wisconsin : a chef's story / Amy Trubek -- Side dish kitchens : Japanese American delicatessens and the culture of nostalgia / Christine Yano -- Familiarity, ambience and intentionality : an investigation into casual dining restaurants in central Illinois / Derek Pardue -- Serving the past on a platter : cultural revolution restaurants in contemporary China / Jennifer Hubbert -- Ethnic succession and the new American restaurant cuisine / Krishnendu Ray -- From Khatchapuri to gefilte fish : dining out and spectacle in Russian Jewish New York / Eve Jochnowitz -- Daughters, duty and deference in the Franco-Chinese restaurant / Winnie Lem -- Authentic Creole : tourism, style and calamity in New Orleans restaurants / David Beriss -- Food, family and tradition in northern Italy : the rise and fall of a Michelin-starred family restaurant / Gerald Mars -- Tipping : an anthropological meditation / David Sutton -- Digestif : postprandial imaginings / Michael Herzfeld.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ryûken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The American Legion and "service" between the Wars / George Lewis -- GI Joe Nisei: The invention of World War II's iconic Japanese American soldier / Ellen D. Wu -- Instrument of subjugation or avenue for liberation? …”

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Table of Contents: “…Smyth -- Mixed race frontiers: border westerns and the limits of "America" / Camilla Fojas -- Mixedfolks.com: "ethnic ambiguity," celebrity outing, and the Internet / Lisa Nakamura -- Catching up with history: Night of the quarter moon, the Rhinelander case, and interracial marriage in 1959 / Heidi Ardizzone -- A window into a life uncloseted: "spice boy" imaginings in new queer cinema / Robb Hernandez -- The biracial subject as passive receptacle for Japanese American memory in Come see the paradise / Kent A. …”
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