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Racial worldmaking : the power of popular fiction
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- Summary
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"Examines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law" --
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- Creator
- Mark C. Jerng
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- vii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0823277763, 0823280543, 0823277755, 9780823277766, 9780823277780, 0823277771, 082327778X, 9780823277759, 9780823277773, 9780823280544
- OCLC
- on1008774198, on1005619028, on1012835394
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Racial Worldmaking -- Part I. Yellow Peril Genres 1. Worlds of Color 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization -- Part II. Plantation Romance 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception -- Part III. Sword and Sorcery 5. The "Facts" of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism -- Part IV. Alternate History 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation 8. Alternate Histories of World War II; or, How the Race Concept Organizes the World -- Conclusion: On the Possibilities of an Antiracist Racial Worldmaking