Coolies and cane : race, labor, and sugar in the age of emancipation / Moon-Ho Jung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, Moon-Ho, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

History.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Louisiana.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Race relations.

Sugar growing.

Social aspects.

Foreign workers, Chinese.

Agricultural laborers.

Immigrants.

Chinese Americans.

Louisiana.

Chinese Americans--Louisiana--Social conditions--19th century.

Immigrants--Louisiana--Social conditions--19th century.

Agricultural laborers--Louisiana--Social conditions--19th century.

Foreign workers, Chinese--Louisiana--History--19th century.

Sugar growing--Social aspects--Louisiana--History--19th century.

Louisiana--Race relations.

Louisiana--Social conditions--19th century.

Louisiana--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of 'coolies' in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States.

Contents:

1 Outlawing Coolies 11

2 Envisioning Freedoms 39

3 Demanding Coolies 73

4 Domesticating Labor 107

5 Redeeming White Supremacy 146

6 Resisting Coolies 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0801882818

OCLC:

60500080

Publisher Number:

9780801882814

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