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

Published New York : NYU Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) Contents 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 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 Analysis 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 Notes Bow_Front; 9780814791325_Bow_i_286_1_1.pdf Print version record Subject Segregation -- Southern States Asian Americans -- Race identity -- Southern States Asian Americans -- Southern States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. Asian Americans Asian Americans -- Race identity Race relations Segregation SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations Subject Southern States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814739129 0814739121

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