Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037832
- eISBN:
- 9780252095955
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Between ...
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The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Between 1950 and 2000, the Asian American population in the American South increased more than one hundred times, much higher than the national average and the greatest increase among all regions of the United States. Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black–white relations, this book explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South, and discusses the formation of past and emerging Asian American communities in the region. As the chapters illustrate, Asian Americans have remade the Southern landscape with a visible, vital presence in many towns, suburbs, and cities. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, the book examines the historical and contemporary significance of Asian American migration, religious identities, and racial formations in the South. several chapters 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.Less
The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Between 1950 and 2000, the Asian American population in the American South increased more than one hundred times, much higher than the national average and the greatest increase among all regions of the United States. Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black–white relations, this book explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South, and discusses the formation of past and emerging Asian American communities in the region. As the chapters illustrate, Asian Americans have remade the Southern landscape with a visible, vital presence in many towns, suburbs, and cities. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, the book examines the historical and contemporary significance of Asian American migration, religious identities, and racial formations in the South. several chapters 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.
Gordon K. Mantler
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807838518
- eISBN:
- 9781469608075
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807838518.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter shows how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis threatened to disrupt not just fragile black-white relations but most of what he had sought in the last ...
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This chapter shows how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis threatened to disrupt not just fragile black-white relations but most of what he had sought in the last months of his life—new alliances, increased public sympathy toward the poor, and a renewed dedication to nonviolent strategy. In the days that followed, black anger and frustration boiled over in more than a hundred cities. Of course, the mistrust and rage of African Americans toward whites and the “system” had translated into civil disorders every spring and summer since Harlem erupted in 1964. King's death, however, compounded that anger and frustration. While less deadly than Watts and Detroit, the unrest of April 1968 touched more cities and produced more property damage, arrests, and injuries than any other time in the 1960s.Less
This chapter shows how the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis threatened to disrupt not just fragile black-white relations but most of what he had sought in the last months of his life—new alliances, increased public sympathy toward the poor, and a renewed dedication to nonviolent strategy. In the days that followed, black anger and frustration boiled over in more than a hundred cities. Of course, the mistrust and rage of African Americans toward whites and the “system” had translated into civil disorders every spring and summer since Harlem erupted in 1964. King's death, however, compounded that anger and frustration. While less deadly than Watts and Detroit, the unrest of April 1968 touched more cities and produced more property damage, arrests, and injuries than any other time in the 1960s.
Danielle Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199779215
- eISBN:
- 9780199379866
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199779215.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book examines the movement of American social dances between black and white cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It is structured by five ...
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This book examines the movement of American social dances between black and white cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It is structured by five overlapping case studies drawn from the disparate and yet related dance scenes of Manhattan, a black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally. By looking at dance as social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of African diasporic peoples—even as they were largely excluded from its rewards. The book builds upon prior scholarship on the topic, and in so doing, revises the African American and popular dance history of this period. Recognizing the racial thinking at the heart of contemporary American dancing, it offers a window into the ways in which social dancing throughout the twentieth century has provided a key means by which diverse groups of people have navigated shifting sociopolitical relations through their bodily movement. The book asserts that the social practice of modern dancing ultimately empowered displaced people like migrants and immigrants to grapple with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and indeed the rise of North American modernity.Less
This book examines the movement of American social dances between black and white cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth century. It is structured by five overlapping case studies drawn from the disparate and yet related dance scenes of Manhattan, a black Atlantic capital into which diverse people and dances flowed and intermingled, and out of which new dances were marketed globally. By looking at dance as social practice across conventional genre and race lines, this book demonstrates that modern social dancing, like Western modernity itself, was dependent on the cultural production and labor of African diasporic peoples—even as they were largely excluded from its rewards. The book builds upon prior scholarship on the topic, and in so doing, revises the African American and popular dance history of this period. Recognizing the racial thinking at the heart of contemporary American dancing, it offers a window into the ways in which social dancing throughout the twentieth century has provided a key means by which diverse groups of people have navigated shifting sociopolitical relations through their bodily movement. The book asserts that the social practice of modern dancing ultimately empowered displaced people like migrants and immigrants to grapple with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and indeed the rise of North American modernity.
