Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Kim Claire Jean University of California Irvine
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Kim Claire Jean University of California Irvine Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted…
Specifikacia Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Kim Claire Jean University of California Irvine
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Kim Claire Jean University of California Irvine
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? racial order?
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is a groundbreaking study that will shake up scholarly and popular thinking on these matters. The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of George Floyd and the surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic raise these questions with new urgency. Theoretically innovative and based on rigorous historical research, this provocative book tells us we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy--and the articulation of the two forces--in order to understand U.S.
racial dynamics. The construction of Asian Americans as not-white but above all not-Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define