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Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Edlie L. Wong
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Description for Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Paperback. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 289 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Condition
New
Weight
485 g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479817962
SKU
V9781479817962
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About Edlie L. Wong
Edlie L. Wong is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and author of Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor of George Lippard's The Killers.
Reviews for Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Offering illuminating analyses of the paranoid fantasies of Asian invasion in travelogues, political cartoons, and sensational fiction that proliferated during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Edlie L. Wong deftly probes the way in which these narratives shaped the racial formations and understandings of free and unfree labor in the American imaginary. Exploring the impact of Exclusion Laws both ... Read more