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Author Jun, Helen Heran, author.

Title Race for citizenship : Black Orientalism and Asian uplift from pre-emancipation to neoliberal America / Helen Heran Jun.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 198 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Nation of newcomers
Nation of newcomers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The press for inclusion: nineteenth-century black citizenship and the anti-Chinese movement -- "When and where I enter--": Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's narrratives of modern black womanhood -- Blackness, manhood, and the aftermath of internment in John Okada's No-no boy (1957) -- Becoming Korean American: blackface and gendered racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay walls (1987) -- Black surplus in the Pacific century: ownership and dispossession in the hood film -- Asian Americans in the age of neoliberalism: human capital and bad choices in a.k.a. Don bonus (1995) and Better luck tomorrow (2002).
Note Print version record.
Summary 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 inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises.
Subject Citizenship -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
Orientalism -- United States -- History.
Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine asiatique -- Conditions sociales.
Orientalisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans -- Social conditions
Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Citizenship
Orientalism
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Indexed Term 19th.
African.
American.
Asian.
II-era.
Negro.
Problem.
Question.
Rights.
World.
Yellow.
acutely.
around.
became.
century.
citizenship.
disenfranchisement.
examines.
globalization.
identity.
late.
loyalty.
mid-.
moments.
national.
post-Civil.
questions.
race.
three.
under.
visible.
when.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Other Form: Print version: Jun, Helen Heran. Race for citizenship. New York : New York University Press, 2011 9780814742976 (DLC) 2010041376 (OCoLC)630468187
ISBN 9780814743324 (electronic bk.)
0814743323 (electronic bk.)
9780814742976 (cl ; alk. paper)
0814742971 (cl ; alk. paper)
9780814742983 (pb ; alk. paper)
081474298X (pb ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000055756981
CHNEW 000605647
DEBBG BV040843408
DEBSZ 397247710
DEBSZ 449286592
NZ1 14248146

 
    
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