Mandarin Brazil : Race, Representation, and Memory / Ana Paulina Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Ana Paulina, Author.

Series:

Asian America.

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Brazil--History.

Chinese.

Chinese in popular culture--Brazil.

Chinese in popular culture.

National characteristics, Brazilian.

Racism--Brazil--History.

Racism.

Brazil--Race relations--History.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual culture, as well as archival documents and Brazilian and Qing dynasty diplomatic correspondence about opening trade and immigration routes between Brazil and China. In so doing, she reveals how Asian racialization helped to shape Brazil's image as a racial democracy. Mandarin Brazil begins during the second half of the nineteenth century, during the transitional period when enslaved labor became unfree labor—an era when black slavery shifted to "yellow labor" and racial anxieties surged. Lee asks how colonial paradigms of racial labor became a part of Brazil's nation-building project, which prioritized "whitening," a fundamentally white supremacist ideology that intertwined the colonial racial caste system with new immigration labor schemes. By considering why Chinese laborers were excluded from Brazilian nation-building efforts while Japanese migrants were welcomed, Lee interrogates how Chinese and Japanese imperial ambitions and Asian ethnic supremacy reinforced Brazil's whitening project. Mandarin Brazil contributes to a new conversation in Latin American and Asian American cultural studies, one that considers Asian diasporic histories and racial formation across the Americas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: Liberty’s Other Histories

Introduction. Circumoceanic Memory

One. Brazil’s Oriental Past and Future

Two. Emancipation to Immigration

Three. Performing Yellowface and Chinese Labor

Four. The Chinese Question in Brazil

Five. Between Diplomacy and Fiction

Six. The Yellow Peril in Brazilian Popular Music

Conclusion. Imaginative Geographies of Brazil and China

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503606029

1503606023

OCLC:

1178769025