Empire, race, and print culture in the Black Pacific / Edlie Wong

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Edlie L., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in race in American literature and culture

Cambridge elements. Elements in race in American literature and culture, 2753-6343

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories. At the end of the nineteenth century, US overseas expansion into the Pacific brought white supremacy and colonial rule into alignment. It also threw into greater relief the contradictions of US citizenship and national identity as legalized segregation and rising anti-Black violence foreclosed Reconstruction's possibilities. Race accrued dynamic new meanings in the age of new imperialism. Focusing on the earliest of African American literary magazines, the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1900–09) and its southern rival, the Atlanta-based Voice of the Negro (1904–7), this Element examines the formative role of magazine and periodical writings in the development of early Black transpacific internationalism"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

In the shadow of Pacific empire

Queen Lili'uokalani’s Hawaii’s story and the struggle for Hawaiian independence

José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere in American translation

The Russo-Japanese War and Black transpacific internationalism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Wong, Edlie L. Empire, race, and print culture in the Black Pacific

ISBN:

9781009417358

1009417355

OCLC:

1584384857

Publisher Number:

CIPO000362902

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license