Coolies and Cane Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation

Name: Coolies and Cane Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780801890826

ISBN-10: 0801890829

ISBN-13: 9780801890826

Edition: 2006

Authors: Moon-Ho Jung

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How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.06" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Outlawing Coolies



Envisioning Freedoms



Demanding Coolies



Domesticating Labor



Redeeming White Supremacy



Resisting Coolies


Conclusion


Notes


A Note on Primary Sources


Index