Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace

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Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age. Cover Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace Copyright CONTENTS Preface Introduction 1 Cyberraces, Cyberplaces 1 Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace 2 Cyber-Race 2 The Pixelated Asia/Pacific 3 Virtually Vietnamese:Nationalism on the Internet 4 North American Hindus, the Sense of History, and the Politics of Internet Diasporism 5 Reimagining the Community: Information Technology and Web-based Chinese Language Networks in North America 6 Laughter in the Rain: Jokes as Membership and Resistance 7 The Geography of Cyberliterature in Korea 8 Intercollegiate Web Pedagogy: Possibilities and Limitations of Virtual Asian American Studies 3 Gender, Sexuality, and Kinship through the Integrated Circuit 9 Filipina.com: Wives, Workers, and Whores on the Cyberfrontier 10 Will the Real Indian Woman Log-On? Diaspora, Gender, and Comportment 11 The Revenge of the Yellowfaced Cyborg Terminator: The Rape of Digital Geishas and the Colonization of Cyber-Coolies in 3D Realms’ Shadow Warrior 12 Good Politics, Great Porn: Untangling Race, Sex, and Technology in Asian American Cultural Productions 13 Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality, and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space Notes on Contributors Index