2. “When and Where I Enter . . .”. Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper’s Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1
6. 1. The Press for Inclusion. Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 13
7. 2. “When and Where I Enter . . .”. Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper’s Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood 33
8. Part 2
9. 3. Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of Internment in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957) 49
10. 4. Becoming Korean American. Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls (1987) 75
11. Part 3
12. Introduction 95
13. 5. Black Surplus in the Pacific Century. Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 99
14. 6. Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism. Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) 123
15. Afterword 149
16. Notes 157
17. Selected Bibliography 185
18. Index 193
19. About the Author 198