“The Great Demoralization”: race, intimacy, and empire in the American West’s anti-Chinese movement, c. 1848–1892
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This study examines the entanglement of empire and intimacy in the anti-Chinese movement of the late nineteenth-century American West. Situating this particular manifestation of race-making against the backdrop of nineteenth-century empire building, this article delineates how Euro-Americans pathologized Chinese migrants’ sexual practices as contradictory to settler colonial futurity. It reads across Asian American history, the study of American empire, and the history of sexuality, historiographies that have at times woven in and out of conversation with one another, but nonetheless remain discrete.
Author: Brianna Cheng
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4388923749