Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts.
Chapter 1 Afro and Chinese Depictions in Peruvian Social Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century Chapter 2 Locating Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Art of Wifredo Lam Chapter 3 Through the Prism of the Harlem Ashram: Afro-Asian-Caribbean Connections in Transnational Circulation Chapter 4 Merging the Transpacific with the Transatlantic: Afro-Asia in Japanese Brazilian Narratives Chapter 5 Parallels and Intersections: Literary Depictions of the Lives of Chinese and Africans in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Cuba Chapter 6 Erased from Collective Memory: Dreadlocks Story Documentary Untangles the Hindu Legacy of Rastafari Chapter 7 Body of Reconciliation: Aida Petrinera Cheng's Journey in Como un Mensajero Tuyo Chapter 8 I am Like One of those Womena: Effeminization of Chinese Caribbean men as Feminist Strategy in Three Contemporary Caribbean Novels Chapter 9 La Mulata Achinada: Bodies, Gender, and Authority in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba
Chapter 1 Afro and Chinese Depictions in Peruvian Social Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century Chapter 2 Locating Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Art of Wifredo Lam Chapter 3 Through the Prism of the Harlem Ashram: Afro-Asian-Caribbean Connections in Transnational Circulation Chapter 4 Merging the Transpacific with the Transatlantic: Afro-Asia in Japanese Brazilian Narratives Chapter 5 Parallels and Intersections: Literary Depictions of the Lives of Chinese and Africans in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Cuba Chapter 6 Erased from Collective Memory: Dreadlocks Story Documentary Untangles the Hindu Legacy of Rastafari Chapter 7 Body of Reconciliation: Aida Petrinera Cheng's Journey in Como un Mensajero Tuyo Chapter 8 "I am Like One of those Women": Effeminization of Chinese Caribbean men as Feminist Strategy in Three Contemporary Caribbean Novels Chapter 9 La Mulata Achinada: Bodies, Gender, and Authority in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba
