Asian Americans in an anti-Black world / Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Claire Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Race identity.

Asian Americans.

African Americans--Relations with Asian Americans.

African Americans.

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 412 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Better Asians Than Blacks

Exclusion / Belonging

Ostracism / Initiation

Solidarity / Disavowal

Coda Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009222280 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.