Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America

by Helen Jun and Helen Heran Jun

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081474298X
• ISBN13: 9780814742983
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"