Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America 9780822389835

A collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expre

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English Pages 374 [366] Year 2007

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America
9780822389835

Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seiz

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The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new

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Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greetin

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Two well-known figures in Ufology—UFOs and Nukes researcher Robert Hastings and military whistleblower Dr. Bob Jacobs—di

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From its most cosmopolitan urban centers to the rural Midwest, the United States is experiencing a rising tide of religi

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A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s In the mi

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The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of bl

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This 2nd edition updates and greatly expands the information that was presented in the first edition. The reader will ha

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In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders,

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