Race for Citizenship : : Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America / / Helen Heran Jun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jun, Helen Heran,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Nation of Nations ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1
• 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
• Part 2
• 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)
• Part 3
• 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