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Book SynopsisFrom the formation of Chinese and Japanese communities in the early twentieth century through Indian hotel owners' battles against business discrimination in the 1980s and ’90s, Stephanie Hinnershitz shows how Asian Americans organised carefully constructed legal battles that often travelled to the state and federal supreme courts.
Trade ReviewReadable and engaging, and recommended to anyone interested in the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and labor in the United States." —
Arkansas Historical Quarterly"An important addition to southern civil rights history . . . [a] careful, accessible study of Asian American legal and organizational challenges to Jim Crow laws and de facto practices." —
Choice"This valuable work presents sophisticated and nuanced insight about Asians in the post-Civil War South . . . A welcome volume." —
Journal of American History"Provides a welcome addition to a flourishing body of scholarship on the experiences of Asian Americans and other immigrant groups in the U.S. South. This scholarship has challenged assumptions that the South was largely excepted from national histories of immigration, and it complicates understandings of racial identity in the region." —
Journal of Southern History"Using a rich set of archival sources, legal records, oral histories, and interviews, and focusing on a range of cases from the 1880s to the late twentieth century, Hinnershitz tells the story of how Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Indian Americans challenged southern racial discrimination and fought for their rights." —
American Historical Review
