Partly Colored : : Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South /

Partly Colored : : Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South / / Leslie Bow.

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Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit?By elucidating the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans-g...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bow, Leslie,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thinking Interstitially
  • 1. Coloring between the Lines: Historiographies of Southern Anomaly
  • 2. The Interstitial Indian: The Lumbee and Segregation’s Middle Caste
  • 3. White Is and White Ain’t: Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South
  • 4. Anxieties of the ‘Partly Colored’
  • 5. Productive Estrangement: Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature
  • 6. Transracial/Transgender: Analogies of Difference in Mai’s America
  • Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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