Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South

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Asian Americans in Dixie The Asian American Experience Series Editors Eiichiro Azuma Jigna Desai Martin F. Manalansan IV Lisa Sun-Hee Park David K. Yoo Roger Daniels, Founding Series Editor A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. Asian Americans in Dixie Race and Migration in the South • Edited by khyati y. joshi and jigna desai university of illinois press urbana, chicago, and springfield Brief portions of Chapter 1 are reprinted by permission of the publisher from Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Chapter 2, Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the “‘Partly Colored’: Representations of Asians under Jim Crow,” by Leslie Bow is reprinted from the Journal of Asian American Studies. Feb. 2007. 10.1: 1–30.© 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asian Americans in Dixie : Race and Migration in the South / edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai. pages cm. — (The Asian American Experience) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-252-03783-2 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-252-07938-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-252-09595-5 (ebook) 1. Asian Americans—Southern States. I. Desai, Jigna. II. Joshi, Khyati Y., 1970f216 .2.a85 2013 305.895'073075—dc23 2013015155 For Hetal and For Rakesh and Seema ...