TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Ana Paulina
TI  - Mandarin Brazil: race, representation, and memory 
T2  - Asian America
SN  - 9781503606029
AV  - F2659.C5 L44 2018eb
U1  - 305.800981 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - Chinese in popular culture
KW  - National characteristics, Brazilian
KW  - Racism
KW  - Chinois
KW  - Brésil
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Chinois dans la culture populaire
KW  - Brésiliens
KW  - Racisme
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : circum-oceanic memory : Chinese racialization in Brazilian perspective -- Brazil's Oriental past and future -- Emancipation to immigration -- Performing yellowface and Chinese labor -- The "Chinese question" in Brazil -- Between diplomacy and fiction -- The yellow peril in Brazilian popular music -- Conclusion : Mandarin Brazil
N2  - In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual culture, as well as archival documents and Brazilian and Qing dynasty diplomatic correspondence about opening trade and immigration routes between Brazil and China. In so doing, she reveals how Asian racialization helped to shape Brazil's image as a racial democracy. Mandarin Brazil begins during the second half of the nineteenth century, during the transitional period when enslaved labor became unfree labor--an era when black slavery shifted to "yellow labor" and racial anxieties surged. Lee asks how colonial paradigms of racial labor became a part of Brazil's nation-building project, which prioritized "whitening," a fundamentally white supremacist ideology that intertwined the colonial racial caste system with new immigration labor schemes. By considering why Chinese laborers were excluded from Brazilian nation-building efforts while Japanese migrants were welcomed, Lee interrogates how Chinese and Japanese imperial ambitions and Asian ethnic supremacy reinforced Brazil's whitening project. Mandarin Brazil contributes to a new conversation in Latin American and Asian American cultural studies, one that considers Asian diasporic histories and racial formation across the Americas
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