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Explores how the history of US citizenship has positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century.

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Original and compelling. . . . Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in& race relations studies. -- Elaine Kim,University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part1 1 The Press for Inclusion 15 Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 2 "When and Where I Enter ..." 33 Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood Part2 3 Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of 51Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) 4 Becoming Korean American 75 Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) Part3 5 Black Surplus in the Pacific Century 99 Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 6 Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism 123 Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

Race for Citizenship Black Orientalism and Asian

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: 23/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9780814742983, 978-0814742983
      ISBN10: 081474298X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores how the history of US citizenship has positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century.

      Trade Review
      Original and compelling. . . . Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in& race relations studies. -- Elaine Kim,University of California, Berkeley

      Table of Contents
      Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part1 1 The Press for Inclusion 15 Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 2 "When and Where I Enter ..." 33 Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood Part2 3 Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of 51Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) 4 Becoming Korean American 75 Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) Part3 5 Black Surplus in the Pacific Century 99 Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 6 Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism 123 Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

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