{"product_id":"east-meets-black-chong-chon-smith-9781496813107","title":"East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEast Meets Black\u003c\/em\u003e examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the post-civil rights era. Indeed Asian and black men in neoliberal America are cast by white supremacy as oppositional. Through this opposition in the US racial hierarchy, Chong Chon-Smith argues that Asian and black men are positioned along binaries brain\/body, diligent\/lazy, nerd\/criminal, culture\/ genetics, student\/convict, and technocrat\/athlete--in what he terms -racial magnetism.-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVia this concept, \u003cem\u003eEast Meets Black\u003c\/em\u003e traces the national conversations that oppose black and Asian masculinities, but also the Afro-Asian counterpoints in literature, film, popular sport, hip-hop music, performance arts, and internet subcultures. Chon-Smith highlights the spectacle and performance of baseball players such as Ichiro Suzuki within global multiculturalism and the racially coded controversy between Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal in transnational basketball. Further, he assesses the prominence of martial arts buddy films such as \u003cem\u003eRomeo Must Die\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRush Hour\u003c\/em\u003e that produce Afro-Asian solidarity in mainstream Hollywood cinema. Finally, Chon-Smith explores how the Afro-Asian cultural fusions in hip-hop open up possibilities for the creation of alternative subcultures, to disrupt myths of black pathology and the Asian model minority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this first interdisciplinary book on Asian and black masculinities in literature and popular culture, Chon-Smith explores the inspiring, contradictory, hostile, resonant, and unarticulated ways in which the formation of Asian and black racial masculinity has affected contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chong Chon-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496813103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496813107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018","brand":"Chong Chon-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474089623807,"sku":"9781496813107","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82371b7a-031d-42c2-b35a-8052a84b99e6.jpg?v=1762314857","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/east-meets-black-chong-chon-smith-9781496813107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}