ABSTRACT
From the sight of curved Chinatown roofs and pointy minarets of Islamic mosques, to the sounds of Cuban timba and South Asian desi dance parties, and from the smell of Turkish shish kabob and Korean kimchi, to henna hand painting and belly dancing—the United States is as much home to immigrant artistic expression as it is the land of immigrants themselves. However distinct, foreign, or contested, the structures, sounds, smells, and other artistic creations of “foreigners” are a definitive and integral part of the American aesthetic milieu.
