Black/Light Racial Reconstruction
pThe end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered widescale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment importing indentured laborers in what became known as amp8220coolieism.amp8221 From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine citizenship.ppRacial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial formations should be studied in different registers and through comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political cartoons immigration case files plantation diaries and sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical reconstruction of U.S. citizenship race and labor relations and imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act Americaamp8217s first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex circulation of people property and print from the Pacific Rim to the Black Atlantic Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on comparative racialization in America and illuminates how slavery and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration to the West.p
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pThe end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered widescale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment importing indentured laborers in what became known as amp8220coolieism.amp8221 From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine citizenship.ppRacial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial formations should be studied in different registers and through comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political cartoons immigration case files plantation diaries and sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical reconstruction of U.S. citizenship race and labor relations and imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act Americaamp8217s first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex circulation of people property and print from the Pacific Rim to the Black Atlantic Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on comparative racialization in America and illuminates how slavery and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration to the West.p
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pThe end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered widescale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment importing indentured laborers in what became known as amp8220coolieism.amp8221 From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine citizenship.ppRacial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial formations should be studied in different registers and through comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political cartoons immigration case files plantation diaries and sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical reconstruction of U.S. citizenship race and labor relations and imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act Americaamp8217s first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex circulation of people property and print from the Pacific Rim to the Black Atlantic Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on comparative racialization in America and illuminates how slavery and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration to the West.p
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Language | English |
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