Book Review of "Hollywood Asian"...

Book review of Hye Seung Chung's Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.

Appears in the International Journal of Communication, 1(1), 2007.
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Book review in journal (solicited, refereed).

Reviews Chung's "critical biography" of Korean American actor Philip Ahn and his long career in Hollywood playing a variety of "Asian" roles.

These Are The Breaks...

"These Are The Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis)Connections."

Appears in AfroAsian encounters : culture, history, politics.
Edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen.
Published by NYU Press, 2006.

Anthology essay (solicited, refereed).

Discusses hip-hop as a symbolic space through which Asian/African Americans encounter one another with both progressive and regressive results.

Between the Notes...

"Between the Notes: Finding Asian America in Popular Music."

Appears in American Music, 19(4), Winter 2001.

Journal article (solicited, refereed).

Examines how trends in Asian American popular music-making reflects changes, tensions and aspirations within the Asian American community from the 1970s until present.