2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from
the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep
South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A
Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced
with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit? By elucidating
the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican,
Asian, and Native Americans-groups that are held to be neither
black nor white-Leslie Bow explores how the color line
accommodated-or refused to accommodate-"other" ethnicities within a
binary racial system. Analyzing pre- and post-1954 American
literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography,
photographs, and popular culture, Bow investigates the ways in
which racially "in-between" people and communities were brought to
heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic, while locating
the interstitial as a site of cultural anxiety and negotiation.
Spanning the pre- to the post- segregation eras, Partly Colored
traces the compelling history of "third race" individuals in the
U.S. South, and in the process forces us to contend with the
multiracial panorama that constitutes American culture and history.
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