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Title

Looking for Asian America : an ethnocentric tour by Wing Young Huie / Wing Young Huie ; foreword by Frank H. Wu ; essay by Anita Gonzalez ; travelogue by Tara Simpson Huie.

Author

Huie, Wing Young, 1955-

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Gonzalez, Anita.
• Minnesota Museum of American Art.
• Wu, Frank H., 1967-

Description

xxiv, 107 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 x 28 cm.

Summary

"In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young Huie - the only member of his family not born in China - traveled with his wife, Tara, through nearly forty states and Canada to explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian American and American cultures. Looking for Asian America illustrates their rich and surprising journey across the United States." "Huie is keenly aware of his own Midwestern roots and perspective, and through his eyes we witness such images as a Vietnamese Elvis, Miss Congeniality on her cell phone in San Francisco's Chinatown, a Hmong street sign in rural North Carolina, a meditating Falun Gong protestor in Washington, D.C., a bubble tea Valley Girl, and a Chinese theme park in Orlando. Huie's camera captures ABCs (American-born Chinese), FOBs (fresh off the boat), and a self-described "redneck Chinese restaurant owner" near the Okefenokee Swamp. Taken together, the photographs reveal a complex portrait of the U.S. cultural landscape, and their dignified elegance invites a closer, deeper look." "Accompanied by the personal reflections of both Wing and Tara Huie, the nearly one hundred spectacular photographs tell a story that both mirrors and contradicts stereotypes of Asian Americans, ultimately questioning what it means to be ethnic and American in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Asian Americans > Exhibitions
• Huie, Wing Young, 1955- > Exhibitions

Note

• "The exhibition Nine Months in America: an ethnocentric tour by Wing Young Huie premiered at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, April 17-August 1, 2004. This book is an extension of the exhibition, which included more than one hundred photographs and videotaped interviews with many of the people Wing photographed. I was the cocurator of the exhibition"--Foreword

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Contents

Foreword / Frank H. Wu -- Preface : Jesus Christ Superstar -- Autobiography and ethnocentricity / Anita Gonzales -- Looking for Asian America -- Ming Wo Cookware -- Locke -- Elmer and Larkin -- Stephen and Chihiro -- Slope County -- Oregon Motel -- Bruce Lee -- Ping -- Saigon y'all -- Martin Yan -- Lilly and Steamy -- Elvis -- Molokai -- Splendid China Theme Park -- Judy and Juxin -- Views from the road / Tara Simpson Huie.

ISBN

• 9780816646722 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0816646724 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007012549

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library