The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form

by Caroline H Yang and Caroline H. Yang

Book Overview

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface minstrelsy in literature of the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras, Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways antiblackness structured US cultural production during a crucial moment of reconstructing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503612058
• ISBN13: 9781503612051
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"