Going "native" in an American borderland : Frank S. Matsura's photographic miscegenation -- By proxy of his black heroes : Eitarō Ishigaki and the battles for equality -- We are Scottsboro boys : Hideo Noda's visual rhetoric of transracial solidarity -- In search of Miki Hayakawa, a Californian cosmopolitan.
Summary:
"Examines the works of four early to mid-twentieth-century American artists of Asian descent. Focuses on their critical engagement with notions of American modernism, and illuminates a transcultural positioning in modern American culture that predates our contemporary discourse on race and identity"--Provided by publisher.
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