TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desai,Jigna
AU  - Joshi,Khyati Y.
TI  - Asian Americans in Dixie: race and migration in the South 
T2  - The Asian American Experience
SN  - 9780252095955
AV  - F216 .A853 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Discrepancies in Dixie: Asian Americans and the South; Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi --; Disrupting Race and Place --; Selling the East in the American South: Bengali Muslim Peddlers in New Orleans and Beyond, 1880-1920; Vivek Bald --; Racial Interstitiality and the Anxieties of the "Partly Colored": Representations of Asians under Jim Crow; Leslie Bow --; Racism Without Recognition: Toward a Model of Asian American Racialization; Amy Brandzel and Jigna Desai --; Community Formation and Profiles --; Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940; Daniel Bronstein --; Moving Out of the Margins and Into the Mainstream: the Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South; Arthur Sakamoto, Changhwan Kim, and Isao Takei --; Natives of a Ghost Country: the Vietnamese in Houston and their Construction of a Postwar Community; Roy Vu --; 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; Jennifer Ho --; "A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package": the Stand-Up Comedy of Henry Cho; Jasmine Kar Tang --; "Like We Lost Our Citizenship": Vietnamese Americans, African Americans, and Hurricane Katrina; Marguerite Nguyen; 2; b
N2  - 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
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