Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not black. Where to sit?
By elucidating the experience of interstitial ethnic groups such as Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans—groups that are held to be neither black nor white—Leslie Bow explores how the color line accommodated—or refused to accommodate—“other” ethnicities within a binary racial system. Analyzing pre- and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, Bow investigates the ways in which racially “in-between” people and communities were brought to heel within the South’s prevailing cultural logic, while locating the interstitial as a site of cultural anxiety and negotiation.
Spanning the pre- to the post- segregation eras, Partly Colored traces the compelling history of “third race” individuals in the U.S. South, and in the process forces us to contend with the multiracial panorama that constitutes American culture and history.
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Leslie Bow is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is author of Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion.
“Through her brilliantly executed and wide ranging analyses of how Asian Americans, Native Americans and other ‘partly colored’ subjects in the American South have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Bow reveals the region to be haunted by a different set of racial histories than the ones with which we have become familiar. She offers a revelatory perspective on how those who occupy the liminal zone between black and white negotiate the dynamic and contradictory social processes that sustain a monochromatic conception of race.”
-Daniel Y. Kim,author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity
“Intelligent and provocative. Partly Colored exemplifies the full possibility of ‘trans’ scholarship—transnational, transracial, transgender, and transdisciplinary. With a deep appreciation of the ways in which mobility, hybridity and interstitiality itself exist within systems of power, accommodating themselves to the tropes and laws of the white supremacist South, Bow consistently demonstrates the telling power of black/white divisions.”
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