Helen Heran Jun is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Original and compelling. . . . Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in& race relations studies. - Elaine Kim,University of California, Berkeley

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part1 1 The Press for Inclusion 15 Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 2 "When and Where I Enter ..." 33 Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood Part2 3 Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of 51Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) 4 Becoming Korean American 75 Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) Part3 5 Black Surplus in the Pacific Century 99 Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 6 Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism 123 Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

Helen Heran Jun is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Original and compelling. . . . Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in& race relations studies. - Elaine Kim,University of California, Berkeley

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part1 1 The Press for Inclusion 15 Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 2 "When and Where I Enter ..." 33 Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood Part2 3 Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of 51Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) 4 Becoming Korean American 75 Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) Part3 5 Black Surplus in the Pacific Century 99 Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 6 Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism 123 Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

Helen Heran Jun is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Original and compelling. . . . Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in& race relations studies. - Elaine Kim,University of California, Berkeley

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part1 1 The Press for Inclusion 15 Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement 2 "When and Where I Enter ..." 33 Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood Part2 3 Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of 51Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) 4 Becoming Korean American 75 Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) Part3 5 Black Surplus in the Pacific Century 99 Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film 6 Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism 123 Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)