Racial Reconstruction : Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship /
Wong, Edlie L.
Racial Reconstruction : Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship / Edlie L. Wong. - 1 online resource : 13 black and white illustrations - America and the Long 19th Century ; 12 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479899043
10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.001.0001 doi
African Americans--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--19th century.
American prose literature--History and criticism--19th century.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Chinese--History--19th century--United States.
Chinese--History--United States--19th century.
Emigration and immigration law--History--United States.
Emigration and immigration law--History.--United States
Labor movement in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Working class in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
PS368 / .W66 2016
818.409355
Racial Reconstruction : Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship / Edlie L. Wong. - 1 online resource : 13 black and white illustrations - America and the Long 19th Century ; 12 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479899043
10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.001.0001 doi
African Americans--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--19th century.
American prose literature--History and criticism--19th century.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Chinese--History--19th century--United States.
Chinese--History--United States--19th century.
Emigration and immigration law--History--United States.
Emigration and immigration law--History.--United States
Labor movement in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Working class in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
PS368 / .W66 2016
818.409355