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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
by
Moon-Ho Jung
How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argu...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
September 29th 2008
by The Johns Hopkins University Press
(first published March 13th 2006)
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Fascinating look at plantation owners' efforts to replace African slave labor with Chinese labor on southeast Louisiana sugar cane plantations. Even more interesting is that the cultural footprint of the Chinese is invisible in these communities today.
I will spare you the details and get to the point. This book is brilliant. If you are interested in Asian American history, there is little I've encountered that does a better job at presenting a slice of that history while also presenting a compelling analysis of how Asians have been racialized in America. Highly recommended.
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