Asian Americans in Dixie
Race and Migration in the South
Edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai
Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, several essays attend to the nuanced ways in which Asian Americans negotiate the dominant black and white racial binary, while others provoke readers to reconsider the supposed cultural isolation of the region, reintroducing the South within a historical web of global networks across the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic.
- University of Illinois Press
- 2013
- Paperback
- Hardcover
- eBook
About the Book
The Asian American story isn't only coastal — the South has its own chapter, and it's overdue.
Foreword: “Honeysuckle, Georgia” (poem) – Purvi Shah
Introduction
Table of Contents
Chapters
Part I: Disrupting Race and Place
01
Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880–1920 — Vivek Bald
02
Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the “Partly Colored” — Leslie Bow
03
Racism without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization — Amy L. Brandzel and Jigna Desai
Part II: Community Formation and Profiles
04
Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s–1940 — Daniel Bronstein
05
Moving out of the Margins and into the Mainstream — Arthur Sakamoto, ChangHwan Kim, and Isao Takei
06
Natives of a Ghost Country: The Vietnamese in Houston — Roy Vu
07
Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta — Khyati Y. Joshi
Section III: Performing Race, Region, and Nation
08
Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives — Jennifer Ann Ho
09
“A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package”: The Stand-up Comedy of Henry Cho — Jasmine Kar Tang
10
“Like We Lost Our Citizenship”: Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina — Marguerite Nguyen
Praise
What Readers Are Saying
“This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. . . . An important contribution to Asian American studies. Essential.”
“A timely and necessary contribution to multiple fields of inquiry, including southern history and studies, immigration history, urban history, foreign relations history, U.S. history writ large, religious studies, American studies, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies. . . . Fresh and forward-looking, Asian Americans in Dixie should serve as a launching pad for new directions in the histories of race, migration, and the U.S. South.”
The Journal of Southern History
“Asian Americans in Dixie succeeds in revealing the complex nature of race, community, and Asian American identity and experience in the South both past and present.”
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
★ Winner, Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles · 2014
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About the Author
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi
Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi is a full Professor in the School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and one of America's leading voices on the intersections of race, religion, and immigration. She is the author or editor of seven books and a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CBS, C-Span, BNC, and NDTV. Her work has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.
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