Helen Heran Jun

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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal AmericaHardcover, 23 February 2011

Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
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Part of Series
Nation of Nations
Part of Series
Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History
Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
23 Feb 2011
ISBN-10
0814742971
ISBN-13
9780814742976

Description

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: the 'Negro Problem' and the 'Yellow Question' in the mid- to late 19th century; World War II-era questions around race, loyalty, and national identity in the context of internment and Jim Crow segregation; and post-Civil Rights discourses of disenfranchisement and national belonging under globalization. Taking up a range of cultural texts--the 19th century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary--Jun does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels racialized subjects to produce developmental narratives of inclusion in the effort to achieve political, economic, and social incorporation. Race for Citizenship provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion.

Product Details

Author:
Helen Heran Jun
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
23 February 2011
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0814742971
ISBN-13:
9780814742976
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
208
Weight:
399.16 gm

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