Race for citizenship : : Black orientalism and Asian uplift from pre-emancipation to neoliberal America / / Helen Heran Jun.
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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Superior document: | Nation of newcomers |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Nation of newcomers.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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