Oliver Wang

Gebundenes Buch

Cruising J-Town

Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles

Beschreibung

Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles?explores how generations of Japanese Americans in Southern California shaped, and were shaped by, local automobile cultures and industries: from desert lakebeds to concrete speedways, gas stations to design centers, souped-up import tuners to humble gardening trucks. Along the way, cars and trucks became literal and figurative vehicles for Japanese American self-expression, social mobility, community identity, and much more. Cruising J-Town is driven to explore how these diverse relationships between people and the world of cars have steered the Nikkei community's American stories across the generations.

Autor

Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke Univ. Press, 2015). He is the curator for the Japanese American National Museum exhibition, Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community, a summer/fall 2025 exhibition about Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles. He is author and editor of the exhibition's companion book, to be published by Angel City Press. Oliver is a regular writer on music, arts and culture for outlets including NPR's All Things Considered, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and KCET's Artbound. He has co-hosted the podcasts Pop Rocket and Heat Rocks and is currently developing a new podcast on the songs of Asian America. He currently lives in the San Gabriel Valley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Angel City Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 208mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9781626401358
• ISBN-10: 1626401357
• Artikelnr.: 72660093