Against exclusion : disrupting anti-Chinese violence in the nineteenth century / Audrey Wu Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Audrey Wu, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ah Toy.

Tape, Mary McGladery, 1857-1934.

Tape, Mary McGladery.

Wong, Chin Foo, 1847-1898.

Wong, Chin Foo.

Lee, Yan Phou, 1861-.

Lee, Yan Phou.

Yung, Wing, 1828-1912.

Yung, Wing.

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

Chinese Americans.

Race discrimination--History--19th century.

Race discrimination.

Chinese Americans--Crimes against--United States.

Racism against Asians--History--19th century.

Racism against Asians.

Violence--United States--History--19th century.

Violence.

Model minority stereotype.

China--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Disrupting anti-Chinese violence in the nineteenth century

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In Against Exclusion, Audrey Wu Clark dramatically reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures. In contrast to later activists who sought to defy stereotypes, Ah Toy, Mary Tape, Wong Chin Foo, Yan Phou Lee, and Yung Wing deployed the model minority and yellow peril tropes to make themselves visible during a period of rampant anti-Chinese violence and legal exclusion. In making themselves visible, they sought to expose and dismantle the contradictory exceptionalism of nineteenth-century US liberalism that both required and “disavowed" the deaths of Chinese Americans.In examining these figures and the ways in which they fought their exclusion as Chinese Americans—via court cases, autobiographical writings, journalism, and other forms of activism—Clark contributes to prevailing scholarly conversations about stereotypes of Asian Americans but contextualizes them in the nineteenth century. She traces the twinned emergences of the model minority and the yellow peril, excavating the exceptionalism with which Chinese Americans were racialized and subject to death—whether by lynching, other forms of driving out, or loss of citizenship or rights—and mapping its reverberations into the present day."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "Violence and the sacred"

Ah Toy and Mary Tape : legal exceptionalism and early Chinese American women's voices

Wong Chin Foo : the excessive making and remaking of a heathen protofeminist

Trauma and activism : Yan Phou Lee writes back

Yung Wing : exceptional minority discourse in the plague era

Conclusion: The enfleshed exceptions.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on October 31, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Clark, Audrey Wu, 1980- Against exclusion.

ISBN:

9780814283875

081428387X

OCLC:

1458557079

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.