... desi South Asian American Arab Spring global pop post-9/11 music ...

... This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role of hip hop as the “soundtrack to the revolution(s)” in the Arab Spring. These artists illustrate the concept of “post-9/11 Brown”—an antiracist global...

... of capital,” it offers brief migration histories of six major Asian American ethnic groups—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Vietnamese, and identifies their current areas of concentration in the United States. The chapter traces shifts evident in media representations beginning...

..., it is generally not counted in Euro-American descriptions of “Asianness.” When it comes to representing the region, the portrayals border on extreme exoticization or sweeping generalizations. Chapter 8 analyzes the construction of South Asia and the Indian subcontinent within video games. In doing so, it invokes...

... Chapter 9 argues that in the context of gaming and esports, South Korea is made to stand in for all of Asia as the new techno-orientalist imaginary. Esports is a critical site where hegemonic North American cultures fetishize the Asiatic—specifically Asian players, play practices...

... as constituted through specific regimes of affect and temporality. Drawing on South Asian and Asian American scholarship, this chapter situates New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area as nodes in the transnational circulation of media, capital, commodities, and populations, and foregrounds the role of public...