Edlie L. Wong is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and author of Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor of George Lippard’s The Killers.
"This book will be of interest to African Americanist and Asian
Americanist scholars and graduate students and, indeed, to all
scholars of nineteenth and early twentieth-century US literature
and history, but it will be especially useful to people interested
in adapting their nineteenth-century US literature courses to
reflect more transnational, multilingual perspectives."
*Melus*
"The juxtaposition of these policies provides for intriguing
analysis. It clearly shows that US history is never simply linear,
as when steps toward freedom for some coincide with oppression of
others. The topic is fascinating."
*Choice*
"Offering illuminating analyses of the paranoid fantasies of Asian
invasion in travelogues, political cartoons, and sensational
fiction that proliferated during the last quarter of the nineteenth
century, Edlie L. Wong deftly probes the way in which these
narratives shaped the racial formations and understandings of free
and unfree labor in the American imaginary. Exploring the impact of
Exclusion Laws both in the U.S. and China against the backdrop of
popular culture in both nations, Racial Reconstruction provides
incredibly rich insights into the global repercussions of these
policies. A stellar book."
*Shelley Fisher Fishkin,author of Writing America: Literary
Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee*
"With impressive archival research,Racial Reconstructiontraces the
fascinating transnational history of U.S. racial formation in the
aftermath of abolition and reconstruction. Exploring the legal
discourse around Asian exclusion in relation to African American
inclusion, Edlie L. Wong pushes our thinking and offers new
insights about how Americans decide who does and does not belong as
a citizen in the United States."
*Gretchen Murphy,author of Shadowing the White Man’s Burden: U.S.
Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line*
"Racial Reconstructionclarifies the stakes of citizenship in the US
racial state, offering important insights into current debates
about immigration and the shifting contours of the US labor force.
It is a model for the kind of deeply historicized work necessary to
elucidate the shifting contours of race in the twenty-first
century."
*American Literature*
"Racial Reconstructionis an engaging study that further illustrates
how race is a comparative phenomenon in the United States, and is a
useful read for those interested in how comparative racialization
of African Americans and Chinese Americans permeated American
literary culture."
*American Nineteenth Century History*
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