124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): American Orientalisms

American Orientalisms

AHA Session 86

Friday, January 8, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Manchester Ballroom D (Hyatt)

Chair:

Nayan B. Shah, University of California, San Diego

Papers:

"Oriental Ornaments and Curiosities": The Bazaar Identity of Ottoman Jews in America
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University

Circus, Shriners, and Fairs, Oh My: Orientalism in American Popular Culture and the Rise of Twentieth-Century Black Islam
Jacob S. Dorman, University of Kansas

Agriculture and American Orientalism in the Anti-Japanese Movement
Cecilia M. Tsu, University of California, Davis

From the Ethnic and Exotic to a Transnational Vision of Buddhism: Japanese Americans and the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conferences of the 1950s
Michael K. Masatsugu, Towson University

Comment:

Nayan B. Shah, University of California, San Diego

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