| Description |
1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the answer to this question and stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances a view of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing the source of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial stereotypes of "coolies" played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how the Chinese appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that white conceptions of "coolies" were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. These laborers could mark the progress of freedom; they could remind Southerners of the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, "coolies" emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and a threat to American civilization. Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude Chinese labor enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas. Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.--Publisher description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-266) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Outlawing Coolies""; ""2 Envisioning Freedoms""; ""3 Demanding Coolies""; ""4 Domesticating Labor""; ""5 Redeeming White Supremacy""; ""6 Resisting Coolies""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""A Note on Primary Sources""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- History.
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Asian Americans. |
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History. |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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Louisiana. |
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Chinese Americans -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Chinese Americans. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Immigrants -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Immigrants. |
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Agricultural laborers -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Agricultural laborers. |
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Foreign workers, Chinese -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
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Foreign workers, Chinese. |
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Sugar growing -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century.
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Sugar growing. |
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Social aspects. |
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Louisiana -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Louisiana -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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Economic conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jung, Moon-Ho, 1969- Coolies and cane. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 0801882818 (DLC) 2005014175 (OCoLC)60500080 |
| ISBN |
080188876X (electronic book) |
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9780801888762 (electronic book) |
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0801882818 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801882814 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0801890829 (paperback) |
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9780801890826 (paperback) |
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