Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lisa Yun
  • Part I. Identity and national discourses
  • Interlude / Kathy López
  • Afro and Chinese depictions in Peruvian social discourse at the turn of the 20th century / Debbie Lee-DiStefano
  • Locating Chinese culture and aesthetics in the art of Wifredo Lam / Mey-Yen Moriuchi
  • Through the prism of the Harlem Ashram: Afro-Asian-Caribbean connections in transnational circulation / Malathi Iyengar
  • Part II. Contact zones, solidarity and syncretism
  • Interlude / Kathy López
  • Merging the Transpacific with the Transatlantic: Afro-Asia in Japanese Brazilian narratives / Zelideth Rivas
  • Parallels and intersections: literary depictions of the lives of Chinese and Africans in 19th century and early 20th century Cuba / Luisa Marcela Ossa
  • Erased from collective memory: Dreadlocks story documentary untangles the Hindu legacy of Rastafari / Linda Aïnouche
  • Part III. Bodies, genders, and identities
  • Interlude / Kathy López
  • Body of reconciliation: Aida Petrinera Cheng's journey in Como un mensajero tuyo by Mayra Montero / Dania Abreu-Torres
  • "I am like one of those women": effeminization of Chinese Caribbean men as feminist strategy in three contemporary Caribbean novels / Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
  • La Mulata Achinada: bodies, gender, and authority in Afro-Chinese religion in Cuba / Martin Tsang.