Edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Honeysuckle, Georgia.”
Purvi Shah
“Discrepancies in Dixie: Asian Americans and the South.”
Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi
Section I: Disrupting Race and Place
Chapter 1: “Peddlers of Notions: Indian Muslim Migrants in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920.”
Vivek Bald
Chapter 2: “Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the “Partly Colored: Representations of Asians under Jim Crow.” REPRINT FROM Journal of Asian American Studies. Feb. 2007. 10.1
Leslie Bow
Chapter 3: “Racialization without Asians, Racism without Recognition: Asian Americans in the New South.”
Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai
Section II: Community Formation and Profiles
Chapter 4: “Segregation, Exclusion and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s - 1940.”
Daniel Bronstein
Chapter 5: “Moving Out of the Margins and into the Mainstream: The Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South.”
Art Sakamoto, Chang Hwan Kim, and Isao Takei
Chapter 6: “Exodus to the New South: The Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Post-War Community.”
Roy Vu
Chapter 7: “Standing up and Speaking out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta.”
Khyati Y. Joshi
Section III: Performing Race, Region, and Nation
Chapter 8: “Southern Eruptions in Asian American 436-501 Narratives.”
Jennifer Ho
Chapter 9: “A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package: The Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho.”
Jasmine Kar Tang
Chapter 10: “It’s like we lost our Citizenship: Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, Hurricane Katrina.”
Marguerite Nguyen
