{"product_id":"east-meets-black-9781496813107","title":"East Meets Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEast Meets Black examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the postcivil rights era. Indeed Asian and black men in neoliberal America are cast by white supremacy as oppositional. Through this opposition in the US racial hierarchy, Chong Chon-Smith argues that Asian and black men are positioned along binaries brain\/body, diligent\/lazy, nerd\/criminal, culture\/ genetics, student\/convict, and technocrat\/athletein what he terms racial magnetism. Via this concept, East Meets Black traces the national conversations that oppose black and Asian masculinities, but also the Afro-Asian counterpoints in literature, film, popular sport, hip-hop music, performance arts, and internet subcultures. Chon-Smith highlights the spectacle and performance of baseball players such as Ichiro Suzuki within global multiculturalism and the racially","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151283614039,"sku":"9781496813107","price":26.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496813107.jpg?v=1762960709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/east-meets-black-9781496813107","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}