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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009222252

ISBN-139781009222259

eBay Product ID (ePID)26059040016

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Book TitleAsian Americans in an Anti-Black World

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAmerican Government / General, United States / General

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorClaire Jean Kim

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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LCCN2023-002722

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Claire Kim's Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is yet another critically important work from a leading theoretician of racial politics within the U.S. An acute observer of the complicated racial dynamics of the twenty-first century U.S., Kim centers anti-blackness as critical for understanding the complex racial dynamics that continue be central to shaping U.S. society and politics.' Michael Dawson, The University of Chicago, 'Sure to elicit controversy and debate, Kim offers a stunning and provocative account of the racial positioning of Asian Americans in a pervasively anti-Black social order. In a work of enormous breadth, she challenges prevailing narratives and paradigms of Asian American history and politics by illustrating how Asian Americans have benefitted from anti-Blackness. Grasping the functionality of 'better than Black' for white supremacy becomes essential to imagining how anti-Asian racism might be framed and contested.' Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, 'A razor-sharp retelling of Asian American history...The story of race and rights in the United States cannot be told without Asian Americans. This book will show you why.' Jeff Guo, NPR Books We Love

Dewey Decimal305.895073

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Better Asians Than Blacks; Part I. Exclusion/Belonging; Part II. Ostracism/Initiation; Part III. Solidarity/Disavowal; Coda: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness.

SynopsisFor scholarly and lay readers who are looking for a theoretically powerful, historically grounded, richly textured analysis of U.S. racial dynamics, with a special focus on how people of Asian descent have been positioned relative to whites and Black people for nearly two centuries., Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? 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. Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is a groundbreaking study that will shake up scholarly and popular thinking on these matters. 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 racial politics in the U.S. in the twenty-first century.

LC Classification NumberE184.A75K528 2023