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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Unfree Labor and the Geopolitics 1 of Marriage and Sexuality PART I: UNCERTAIN DOMESTICITY 1. Sexual Deviance and Racial Excess 27 2. Orientalism, Black Domesticity, and Imperial Ambivalence 51 PART II: TRANS-PACIFIC ARCHIVES UNBOUND 3. “Yellow Slavery” and Sensational Violence 77 4. Domesticating the Aliens: Sentimental Benevolence 103 5. Domesticity, Race, and Colonial Modernity 127 Postscript: The Obama Paradox 149 Notes 153 Works Cited 191 Index 207 Contents vii ...

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