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Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship
- American Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 58, Number 4, December 2006
- pp. 1047-1066
- 10.1353/aq.2007.0010
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This article examines how U.S. Orientalism and the anti-Chinese movement ambiguously facilitated the incorporation of African Americans into developmental narratives of Western modernity. This analysis focuses particularly on how the nineteenth century black press engaged discourses of Oriental difference in an attempt to negotiate the contradictions and vulnerabilities endemic to African American citizenship.