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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bow, Leslie, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: thinking interstitially
  • Coloring between the lines: historiographies of Southern anomaly
  • The interstitial Indian: the Lumbee and segregation's middle caste
  • White is and white ain't: failed approximation and eruptions of funk in representations of the Chinese in the South
  • Anxieties of the "partly colored"
  • Productive estrangement: racial-sexual continuums in Asian American as Southern literature
  • Transracial/transgender: analogies of difference in Mai's America
  • Afterword: continuums, mobility, places on the train.