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Author:

Wong, Edlie L., author.

Title:

Racial reconstruction : Black inclusion, Chinese exclusion, and the fictions of citizenship / Edlie L. Wong.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Chinese--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Labor movement in literature.
Working class in literature.
Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.
United States--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Black inclusion/Chinese exclusion : toward a cultural history of comparative racialization -- "Cosa de Cuba!" : American literary travels, empire, and the contract Coolie -- From emancipation to exclusion : racial analogy in Afro-Asian periodical print culture -- American futures past : the counterfactual histories of Chinese invasion -- Boycotting exclusion : the transpacific politics of Chinese sentimentalism -- Conclusion : Against historicism : James D. Corrothers and speculations on our racial futures.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

1479817961
9781479817962
1479868000
9781479868001

OCLC:

(OCoLC)906010899

LCCN:

2015015622

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)