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Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the
United States Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the
United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent
symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For
almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and
symbolic vehicle for American national identity, manifest destiny,
and imperial ambitions. It's no surprise, then, that the train
continues to endure in depictions across literature, film, ad
music. The Racial Railroad highlights the surprisingly central role
that the railroad has played-and continues to play-in the formation
and perception of racial identity and difference in the United
States. Julia H. Lee argues that the train is frequently used as
the setting for stories of race because it operates across multiple
registers and scales of experience and meaning, both as an
invocation of and a depository for all manner of social,
historical, and political narratives. Lee demonstrates how, through
legacies of racialized labor and disenfranchisement-from the
Chinese American construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and
the depictions of Native Americans in landscape and advertising, to
the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation-the train becomes
one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works
explore questions of racial subjectivity, community, and conflict.
By considering the train through various lenses, The Racial
Railroad tracks how racial formations and conflicts are constituted
in significant and contradictory ways by the spaces in which they
occur.
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize
in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative
Series Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian
American literary works and Asian characters appear in African
American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial
Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary
question, arguing that scenes depicting Black-Asian interactions,
relationships, and conflicts capture the constitution of African
American and Asian American identities as each group struggled to
negotiate the racially exclusionary nature of American identity. In
this nuanced study, Julia H. Lee argues that the diversity and
ambiguity that characterize these textual moments radically
undermine the popular notion that the history of Afro-Asian
relations can be reduced to a monolithic, media-friendly narrative,
whether of cooperation or antagonism. Drawing on works by Charles
Chesnutt, Wu Tingfang, Edith and Winnifred Eaton, Nella Larsen,
W.E.B. Du Bois, and Younghill Kang, Interracial Encounters
foregrounds how these reciprocal representations emerged from the
nation's pervasive pairing of the figure of the "Negro" and the
"Asiatic" in oppositional, overlapping, or analogous relationships
within a wide variety of popular, scientific, legal, and cultural
discourses. Historicizing these interracial encounters within a
national and global context highlights how multiple racial groups
shaped the narrative of race and national identity in the early
twentieth century, as well as how early twentieth century American
literature emerged from that multiracial political context.
Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the
United States Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the
United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent
symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For
almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and
symbolic vehicle for American national identity, manifest destiny,
and imperial ambitions. It's no surprise, then, that the train
continues to endure in depictions across literature, film, ad
music. The Racial Railroad highlights the surprisingly central role
that the railroad has played-and continues to play-in the formation
and perception of racial identity and difference in the United
States. Julia H. Lee argues that the train is frequently used as
the setting for stories of race because it operates across multiple
registers and scales of experience and meaning, both as an
invocation of and a depository for all manner of social,
historical, and political narratives. Lee demonstrates how, through
legacies of racialized labor and disenfranchisement-from the
Chinese American construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and
the depictions of Native Americans in landscape and advertising, to
the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation-the train becomes
one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works
explore questions of racial subjectivity, community, and conflict.
By considering the train through various lenses, The Racial
Railroad tracks how racial formations and conflicts are constituted
in significant and contradictory ways by the spaces in which they
occur.
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize
in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative
Series Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian
American literary works and Asian characters appear in African
American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial
Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary
question, arguing that scenes depicting Black-Asian interactions,
relationships, and conflicts capture the constitution of African
American and Asian American identities as each group struggled to
negotiate the racially exclusionary nature of American identity. In
this nuanced study, Julia H. Lee argues that the diversity and
ambiguity that characterize these textual moments radically
undermine the popular notion that the history of Afro-Asian
relations can be reduced to a monolithic, media-friendly narrative,
whether of cooperation or antagonism. Drawing on works by Charles
Chesnutt, Wu Tingfang, Edith and Winnifred Eaton, Nella Larsen,
W.E.B. Du Bois, and Younghill Kang, Interracial Encounters
foregrounds how these reciprocal representations emerged from the
nation's pervasive pairing of the figure of the "Negro" and the
"Asiatic" in oppositional, overlapping, or analogous relationships
within a wide variety of popular, scientific, legal, and cultural
discourses. Historicizing these interracial encounters within a
national and global context highlights how multiple racial groups
shaped the narrative of race and national identity in the early
twentieth century, as well as how early twentieth century American
literature emerged from that multiracial political context.
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