Race for citizenship [electronic resource] : Black Orientalism and Asian uplift from pre-emancipation to neoliberal America / Helen Heran Jun.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-192) and index.

The press for inclusion: nineteenth-century black citizenship and the anti-Chinese movement -- "When and where I enter--": Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's narrratives of modern black womanhood -- Blackness, manhood, and the aftermath of internment in John Okada's No-no boy (1957) -- Becoming Korean American: blackface and gendered racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay walls (1987) -- Black surplus in the Pacific century: ownership and dispossession in the hood film -- Asian Americans in the age of neoliberalism: human capital and bad choices in a.k.a. Don bonus (1995) and Better luck tomorrow (2002).

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