Race for citizenship Black orientalism and Asian uplift from pre-emancipation to neoliberal America
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
2011.
New York, NY : [2011] |
| Colección: | Nation of newcomers.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817329906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Press for Inclusion. Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement
- 2. “When and Where I Enter . . .”. Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper’s Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood
- 3. Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of Internment in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957)
- 4. Becoming Korean American. Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls (1987)
- Introduction
- 5. Black Surplus in the Pacific Century. Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film
- 6. Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism. Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
