The End of Empires: African Americans and India by Horne, Gerald C.

The End of Empires: African Americans and India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592138999)

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The End of Empires: African Americans and India by Horne, Gerald C.

The End of Empires: African Americans and India

$61.50
The End of Empires: African Americans and India by Horne, Gerald C.

The End of Empires: African Americans and India

$61.50
Format: Hardcover
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In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, a"Economic Citizens"aunveils the logic of economic exchange that determined Asian AmericansOCO transnational migrations and national belonging.

With penetrating insight, So examines literary works that have been successful in the U.S. marketplace but have been read previously by critics largely as narratives of alienation or assimilation, includinga"Fifth Chinese Daughter, Flower Drum Song, Falling Leaves"aanda"Turning Japanese." In contrast to other studies that have focused on the marginalization of Asian Americans, a"Economic Citizens"aexamines how Asian Americans have entered into the public sphere.

Author: Gerald C. Horne
ISBN-10: 1592138993
ISBN-13: 9781592138999
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2008 pg. 47
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/10/2008 pg. 20

By Gerald C. Horne
By Gerald C. Horne
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Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, is the author of many books including Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade, and Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (Temple).

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