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Discrepancies in Dixie: Asian Americans and the South / Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi -- Disrupting Race and Place -- Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920 / Vivek Bald -- Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the "Partly Colored": Representations of Asians under Jim Crow / Leslie Bow -- Racism Without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization / Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai -- Community Formation and Profiles -- Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940 / Daniel Bronstein -- Moving Out of the Margins and Into the Mainstream: the Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South / Arthur Sakamoto, Changhwan Kim, and Isao Takei -- Natives of a Ghost Country: the Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Postwar Community / Roy Vu -- Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta -- Khyati Y. Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / Jennifer Ho -- "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / Jasmine Kar Tang -- "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Marguerite Nguyen

Frontmatter -- ASIAN AMERICA -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the United States at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- 2 The Pakistani Diaspora in North America -- 3 Identity and Visibility: Reflections on Museum Displays of South Asian Art -- 4 South Asian Religions in the United States: New Contexts and Configurations -- 5 Bollywood Abroad: South Asian Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Indian Cinema -- 6 The Psychological Cost of New Cosmopolitanism: Eating Disorders in the Context of Globalization -- 7 Theorizing Recognition: South Asian Authors in a Global Milieu -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Family and Nation -- Chapter 1. Mompreneur in the Multiplex -- Chapter 2. Lethal Acts -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Couple Form -- Chapter 4. Mera Saaya -- PART II. Body Matters -- Chapter 5. New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion -- Chapter 6. Queering Bollywood -- Chapter 7. Plus-Size Femininity -- Chapter 8. The Many Bodies of Vidya Balan -- PART III. Geographies of the New Woman -- Chapter 9. Out of India -- Chapter 10. Learning to Love The(ir) World -- Chapter 11. Single in the City -- Chapter 12. Glocal Women -- PART IV. New Media and the New Woman -- Chapter 13. All Broken Up and Dancing -- Chapter 14. Reshaping "Bollywood" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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