White Citizenship and Asian Americans’ Subalternity: Takao Ozawa, Bhagat Singh Thind, and Easurk Emsen Charr

• 영문명: White Citizenship and Asian Americans’ Subalternity: Takao Ozawa, Bhagat Singh Thind, and Easurk Emsen Charr
• 발행기관: 동국역사문화연구소
• 저자명: Lee Chan-haeng
• 간행물 정보: 『동국사학』제59권, 659~682쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 역사학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.31

영문 초록

By analyzing two United States Supreme Court cases of Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922) and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923), this paper highlights the power of whiteness in making of the subject of Asian Americans. Takao Ozawa and Bhagat Singh Thind sought American citizenship by trying to prove that they were white. It suggests that both of them thoroughly internalized the value of whiteness. Unlike Ozawa and Thind, however, Easurk Emsen Charr oscillated between the assimilated immigrants and the permanent foreigners. By examining Charr’s autobiography The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960, this paper emphasizes the intractability of Asian Americans, which is irreducible to whiteness, in order to identify the emergence of their subalternity within dominant discourse.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction: Whiteness and Asian Americans

Ⅱ. Ozawa, Thind, and the Power of Whiteness

Ⅲ. Easurk Emsen Charr and Asian Americans’ Subalternity

Ⅳ. Conclusion: Toward a Subaltern Immigration History

키워드

타카오 오자와 배깃 싱 띤드 의석 엠센 차 백인성 서발터니티 Takao Ozawa Bhagat Singh Thind Easurk Emsen Charr whiteness subalternity