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"... Full description
- Introduction : the other American moderns
- 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
- Epilogue : concerning exclusion.