![]() | Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Subjects: Citizenship -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions; Asian Americans -- Social conditions; Orientalism -- United States -- History; 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. Jun Helen Heran : Helen Heran Jun is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. |
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