Asian Americans in an anti-Black world
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Asian Americans in an anti-Black world
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Summary: "For scholarly and lay readers who are looking for a theoretically powerful, historically grounded, richly textured analysis of U.S. racial dynamics, with a special focus on how people of Asian descent have been positioned relative to whites and Black people for nearly two centuries"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of George Floyd and the surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic raise these questions with new urgency. Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is a groundbreaking study that will shake up scholarly and popular thinking on these matters. Theoretically innovative and based on rigorous historical research, this provocative book tells us we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy-and the articulation of the two forces-in order to understand U.S. racial dynamics. The construction of Asian Americans as not-white but above all not-Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define racial politics in the U.S. in the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Better Asians Than Blacks
- Part I. Exclusion/Belonging
- Part II. Ostracism/Initiation
- Part III. Solidarity/Disavowal
- Coda: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness.
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