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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bow, Leslie, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Segregation > Southern States.
Asian Americans > Race identity > Southern States.
Asian Americans > Southern States.
Ségrégation > États-Unis (Sud)
Américains d'origine asiatique > Identité ethnique > États-Unis (Sud)
Américains d'origine asiatique > États-Unis (Sud)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans > Race identity
Race relations
Segregation
Southern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States
1943.
Americans.
Arkansas.
Asian.
Crow-era.
Deep.
Japanese-American.
Leslie.
Mexican.
Native.
South.
Where.
accommodate.
accommodated.
binary.
black.
boards.
bus.
color.
dilemma.
during.
elucidating.
ethnic.
ethnicities.
experience.
explores.
faced.
groups.
heart.
held.
immediately.
interstitial.
line.
neither.
other.
person.
racial.
refused.
segregation.
sit.
such.
system.
that.
white.
with.
within.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Bow_Front; 9780814791325_Bow_i_286_1_1.pdf.
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
ISBN:9780814739129
0814739121

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