{"id":25127,"date":"2012-08-31T23:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2012-08-31T23:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T23:56:30","slug":"qa-professor-examines-those-%e2%80%98outside-the-color-lines%e2%80%99-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25127","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Professor examines those \u2018outside the color lines\u2019 in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q&A: Professor examines those \u2018outside the color lines\u2019 in new book<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/a>
\nNews<\/a>
\n2012-10-20<\/p>\n

Jenney Price<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The history of segregation in the United States is often seen in black and white. Leslie Bow<\/a>, professor of English and Asian American studies, is interested in the experiences of communities that fell outside those color lines. In her new book, Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South<\/a><\/em>, Bow examines what segregation demanded of people who did not fall into the category of black or white \u2014 including Asians, American Indians and people of mixed race.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Week:<\/strong> What did segregation mean for people who \u2014 as you described it \u2014 stood outside the color lines? You posed the question, \u201cWhere did the Asian sit on the segregated bus?\u2019<\/p>\n

Leslie Bow:<\/strong> I think what\u2019s most interesting to me about a project like this is that we often conflate race with African-Americans or see race as a black-white issue. When we say \u201cmulticulturalism\u201d \u2026 we don\u2019t think conceptually or theoretically about the challenge that poses to the way we think about racial history in the United States…<\/p>\n

…WW:<\/strong> You mentioned your parents, who are Chinese-American. They attended white schools in Arkansas but didn\u2019t socialize with and weren\u2019t invited to the homes of their white classmates and I wondered how much their experience impacted your research interests?<\/p>\n

LB:<\/strong> Definitely, because it was something that they themselves did not talk about. What I found was that they mediated that experience by creating a third level of segregation where there was limited social engagement with either whites or blacks. Their social context was wholly Chinese-American at the time. So, to me that was just the jumping off point for really an exploration of ambiguity, which is very much the bread and butter of literary studies: How you come to this process of interpreting multiple meanings within any given text…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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