Thadious M. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835210
- eISBN:
- 9781469602554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869321_davis.7
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part explores how when limiting black people to a specific geographical space, they continue to remain contained in the “raced” space to the ...
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This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part explores how when limiting black people to a specific geographical space, they continue to remain contained in the “raced” space to the exclusion of the larger society. It looks at how the Creoles, the Louisiana people of mixed races, created fluid, less segregated spaces. The cultural movement and primary destination for Creoles of Color in the nineteenth century, was France. The chapter then narrates how the 1896 Plessy ruling maintained segregation rules. The chapter also discusses the work of Louisiana poet Brenda Marie Osbey, who takes recourse to the past to rewrite history.Less
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part explores how when limiting black people to a specific geographical space, they continue to remain contained in the “raced” space to the exclusion of the larger society. It looks at how the Creoles, the Louisiana people of mixed races, created fluid, less segregated spaces. The cultural movement and primary destination for Creoles of Color in the nineteenth century, was France. The chapter then narrates how the 1896 Plessy ruling maintained segregation rules. The chapter also discusses the work of Louisiana poet Brenda Marie Osbey, who takes recourse to the past to rewrite history.
Monica Chiu
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838423
- eISBN:
- 9780824869588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838423.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter examines how Asian (ethnic) enclaves have been demonized as dangerous, threatening racial spaces into which innocent subjects are transformed, disappear, or die by offering a reading of ...
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This chapter examines how Asian (ethnic) enclaves have been demonized as dangerous, threatening racial spaces into which innocent subjects are transformed, disappear, or die by offering a reading of Nina Revoyr's 2003 novel Southland. In Southland, Revoyr maps the twin themes of love and hate in the multiracial Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles and introduces readers to a changing landscape of race relations in a region that eventually disintegrated into an African American ghetto, a space with connotations related to violence and crime. In Revoyr's novel, Japanese Americans are proclaimed enemy aliens during World War II but are eventually accepted as hardworking minorities. This chapter explores the political interconnections among place, racial strife, and social identity, particularly in relation to the vacillating construction of Asian Americans against the relatively static representation of African Americans as potential threats.Less
This chapter examines how Asian (ethnic) enclaves have been demonized as dangerous, threatening racial spaces into which innocent subjects are transformed, disappear, or die by offering a reading of Nina Revoyr's 2003 novel Southland. In Southland, Revoyr maps the twin themes of love and hate in the multiracial Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles and introduces readers to a changing landscape of race relations in a region that eventually disintegrated into an African American ghetto, a space with connotations related to violence and crime. In Revoyr's novel, Japanese Americans are proclaimed enemy aliens during World War II but are eventually accepted as hardworking minorities. This chapter explores the political interconnections among place, racial strife, and social identity, particularly in relation to the vacillating construction of Asian Americans against the relatively static representation of African Americans as potential threats.
