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Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire - Couverture souple

Riley, Nancy E.

 
9780231196796: Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231196792 ISBN 13 : 9780231196796
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The Chinese experience in Hawai'i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai'i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic groups had the possibility to attain middle-class lives. Today, Honolulu's Chinatown is not only a destination for tourism and consumption but also a celebration of Chinese accomplishments, memorializing past discrimination and present prominence within a framework of multiculturalism. This narrative, however, conceals many other histories and processes that played crucial roles in shaping Chinatown.

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai'i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization. Nancy E. Riley foregrounds elements that are often left out of narratives of Chinese history in Hawai'i, particularly the place of Native Hawaiians, geopolitics and U.S. empire building, and the ongoing construction of race and whiteness. Tracing how Chinatown became a site of historical remembrance, she argues that it is also used to reinforce the ideology of neoliberal multiculturalism, which upholds racial hierarchy by lauding certain ethnic groups while excluding others. An insightful and in-depth analysis of the story of Honolulu's Chinatown, this book offers new perspectives on the making of the racial landscape of Hawai'i and the United States more broadly.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nancy E. Riley is A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. Her most recent book is Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power (with Nilanjana Chatterjee, 2023).

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231196792
ISBN 13 
9780231196796
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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