A Different Shade of Justice Asian American Civil Rights in the South / by Stephanie Hinnershitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinnershitz, Stephanie, 1984- author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.323.11.

Civil rights.

Asian Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Southern States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. This work tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South.

Contents:

The oriental menace comes to the South: anti-alien property laws

Black or white? Asian Americans? Challenges to segregated schools

A love that could not be known: sex, marriage, and southern law

Post-1965 changes in Asian America

From the Gulf to the courts: Vietnamese Americans and human rights in Texas

Getting down to business in Dixie: Indian American hotel owners and entrepreneurial rights.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890851772

9781469633701

1469633701

9781469633718

146963371X

OCLC:

1001338091