Racial Reconstruction : : Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship / / Edlie L. Wong.
The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as "coolieism." From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme C...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 13 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Black Inclusion / Chinese Exclusion: Toward a Cultural History of Comparative Racialization
- 1. "Cosa de Cuba!": American Literary Travels, Empire, and the Contract Coolie
- 2. From Emancipation to Exclusion: Racial Analogy in Afro-Asian Periodical Print Culture
- 3. American Futures Past: The Counterfactual Histories of Chinese Invasion
- 4. Boycotting Exclusion: The Transpacific Politics of Chinese Sentimentalism
- Conclusion: Against Historicism: James D. Corrothers and Speculations on Our Racial Futures
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author