Author: Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: history, diasporic, america, jews, sephardic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0814799825
ISBN-13: 9780814799826

A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles wi

Author: Ella Shohat
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: voices, diasporic, memories, taboo
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0822337711
ISBN-13: 9780822337713

Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays—some classic, some less known, some new—trace a powerful intellectual trajectory as Shohat rigorously teases out the consequences of a deep critique of Eurocentric epistemology, whether to rethink feminism through race, nationalism through ethnicity, or colonialism through sexuality.Shohat’s critical method boldly tr

Author: Lok Siu
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: chinese, panama, citizenship, diasporic, future, home, memories
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-10-28
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0804753024
ISBN-13: 9780804753029

While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. "Memories of a Future Home" offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct a home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations—Panama, their nation of residence; China/Taiwan, their ethnic homeland; and the United States, the colonial force. Juxtaposing the concepts of diaspora and citizenship, this book offers an innovative framework to understa

Author: Hamid Naficy
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: filmmaking, diasporic, exilic, cinema, accented
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0691043914
ISBN-13: 9780691043913

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy’s work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person to the next, the films themselves exhibit stylistic similarities, from their open- and closed-form aesthetics to their nostalgic and memory-driven multilingual narratives, and from their emphasis on political agency to their concern

Author: Ashley Dawso
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: postcolonial, britain, making, culture, nation, diasporic, mongrel
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-13
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0472069918
ISBN-13: 9780472069910

Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom’s exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the n

Author: Jigna Desai
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: diasporic, film, asian, south, cultural, politics, bollywood
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415966841
ISBN-13: 9780415966849

Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.

Author: Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: diasporic, community, education, moral, american, identity, khmer
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 1999-01-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520213491
ISBN-13: 9780520213494

In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust.Based on long-term research among Cambodians residing in metropolitan Boston, this rich ethnography provides a vivid portrait of the challenges facing Khmer American culture as seen from the perspective of elders atte