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:

x, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Disrupting anti-Chinese violence in the nineteenth century

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Traces the discourses of the model minority and the yellow peril back to the nineteenth century and examines the activist efforts and writings of Ah Toy, Mary Tape, Wong Chin Foo, Yan Phou Lee, and Yung Wing, who sought to prove their humanity and their right to citizenship amid the exclusion and dehumanization of Chinese Americans"-- 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:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780814215623

0814215629

9780814259269

081425926X

OCLC:

1435476947