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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South

Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South

Bow, Leslie

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Asian American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0814791336
ISBN13: 9780814791332
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Apr 23 2010
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies
Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit?

By elucidating the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans--groups that are held to be neither black nor white--Leslie Bow explores how the color line accommodated--or refused to accommodate--other ethnicities within a binary racial system. Analyzing pre- and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, Bow investigates the ways in which racially in-between people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic, while locating the interstitial as a site of cultural anxiety and negotiation.

Spanning the pre- to the post- segregation eras, Partly Colored traces the compelling history of third race individuals in the U.S. South, and in the process forces us to contend with the multiracial panorama that constitutes American culture and history.

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