Asian Americans in Dixie : race and migration in the South /
edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- The Asian American Experience .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Discrepancies in Dixie: Asian Americans and the South / Disrupting Race and Place -- Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920 / Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the "Partly Colored": Representations of Asians under Jim Crow / Racism Without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization / Community Formation and Profiles -- Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940 / Moving Out of the Margins and Into the Mainstream: the Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South / Natives of a Ghost Country: the Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Postwar Community / Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta -- Khyati Y. Joshi -- Performing Race, Region, and Nation -- Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives / "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho / "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina / Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi -- Vivek Bald -- Leslie Bow -- Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai -- Daniel Bronstein -- Arthur Sakamoto, Changhwan Kim, and Isao Takei -- Roy Vu -- Jennifer Ho -- Jasmine Kar Tang -- Marguerite Nguyen.
The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early 19th and 20th century. Between 1950 and 2000, the Asian American population in the American South increased more than 100 times, much higher than the national average and the greatest increase among all regions of the United States. Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this work explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South, and discusses the formation of past and emerging Asian American communities in the region.