Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship

by Edlie Wong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479817961
• ISBN13: 9781479817962
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"