Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South

Contents

| v Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Thinking Interstitially 1 1 Coloring between the Lines: 23 Historiographies of Southern Anomaly 2 The Interstitial Indian: 57 The Lumbee and Segregation’s Middle Caste 3 White Is and White Ain’t: 91 Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South 4 Anxieties of the ‘Partly Colored’ 123 5 Productive Estrangement: 159 Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature 6 Transracial/Transgender: 197 Analogies of Difference in Mai’s America Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train 229 Notes 239 Works Cited 261 Index 273 About the Author 285 ...