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Racial Reconstruction

Name: Racial Reconstruction
Brand: New York University Press
SKU: 9781479817962
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Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship

Autor: Edlie Wong

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Editura: New York University Press

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The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S....

Informații despre carte

Autor

Edlie Wong

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

304

EAN

9781479817962

ISBN

1479817961

Enbook ID

09282070

Editura

New York University Press

Greutate

486

Dimensiuni

289 x 156 x 23

Descriere completă

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 Court test cases brought by Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine citizenship. Racial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial formations should be studied in different registers and through comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political cartoons, immigration case files, plantation diaries, and sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical reconstruction of U.S. citizenship, race and labor relations, and imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act, America's first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex circulation of people, property, and print from the Pacific Rim to the Black Atlantic, Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on comparative racialization in America, and illuminates how slavery and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration to the West.