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How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States.
Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial notions of coolies were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. They could mark the progress of freedom; they could also symbolize the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, coolies emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and the scourge of American civilization.
Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude coolies enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas.
Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.
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A Very Neglected Topic.......2007-01-30
Moon-Ho Jung has produced a very interesting work detailing the little known fact of the importation of large numbers of Chinese workers to the plantations in Lousiana. I disagee with the previous reviewer in that this is one of the few works out of the academic presses that is not overly ideological in its tone or presentation. The book quotes extensively from contemporary reports, especially newspapers of the period. It is also, unlike many academic volumes of recent times, a well written narrative.
I have little cause for complaint, but if I could make one it is that the situation in Latin America is not dealt with in sufficient depth. Chinese workers faced better conditions in most times and places there, but could also on some occasions face worse conditions. The same environment was not present there as in the United States, so some explanation is necessary as to why the same treatment was sometimes felt by the Chinese workforce. Also, comparitive work could be done on the position of Japanese workers who were also present in great numbers in both the United States and many different Latin American countries. Perhaps a future edition might cover this.
Moon-Ho Jung is an author new to me, and I hope to read more from him in the future. I would also recommend, as a companion to this book, one of the many fine volumes on the position of Chinese workers in California, as well as their role in the building of the western half of the transcontinental railroad. Most new general histories of the railroad now finaly do cover, at least a little, the position of the Chinese workers and their accomplishments.
Overly ideological history.......2007-01-28
Typical of recent multicultural efforts it is a book heavy on theory and unsupported assertions. Facts are only given when they support the multicultural agenda of the day. For example, in my reading of Chinese-American and European-American memoirs, I have found that relations are often shown as containing much more mutual respect than any multicultural historian will allow.
This book also uses "whiteness" rhetoric--a substitute for substantive analysis. Every group is tribal to an extent--favoring their religious, ethnic or cultural group. Examples aboud in Asia, for example, but everytime any European-American favors themself it is "whiteness." China and Japan have over their long histories have practiced their own discimination, such as massacres or immigration restrictions on foreigners. We of course don't reduce all of Japan's history to a criticism of "Japaneseness." Euroamericans were worse, of course, but some of the actions called "whiteness" are just the same cultural self-preference everyone else is allowed.
A Transformative Interpretation of Asian American History and the History of Emancipation.......2007-01-24
This book tells the little-known story of Chinese migrants who labored in the cane fields of Louisiana in the nineteenth century. More than a story of "recovery," however, Jung uses this episode to advocate for a radically different, politically driven interpretation of Asian American history as well as to probe larger enquiries about the formation of U.S. race, nation, and empire in the age of emancipation. Bringing together the studies of emancipation, U.S. nation- and empire-building, and Asian labor migration, Jung's work speaks to heretofore disjointed fields that, when critically examined side-by-side, produces rich new insights about American culture and the U.S. social formation.
The book opens with Jung situating the national push for Chinese exclusion within congressional debates over the meanings of slavery and freedom in the postbellum era. The Chinese Exclusion Act, he argues, rather than a result of anti-Chinese rancor in California, culminated from "U.S. imperial ambitions in Asia and the Caribbean and broader struggles to demarcate the legal boundary between slavery and freedom". An ambiguous figure situated between black and white, enslaved and free, the coolie generated contentious debates in the halls of Congress and in public discourse. Their exclusion, in the end, signaled the nation's rejection of its slavery past and a commitment to "freedom"--in terms of "free labor," "free trade," and European immigration--in the post-emancipation era.
In one of the most profound arguments of the book, Jung contends that the recruitment and exclusion of coolies ultimately recast the U.S. as a white nation of immigrants. Critical of recurrent liberal claims that Asians are just like other immigrants, he demonstrates how congressional proceedings about the Chinese's incapacity for citizenship "concretized America's self image as the `nation of immigrants' and consolidated the `immigrant' as European and white...". Rather than threatening this democratic and pluralistic image of the United States, the movement against the Chinese actually helped to preserve it.
The anti-coolie movement in Louisiana and the nation at large crucially reconstituted whiteness as the central component of U.S. national identity. Not losing sight of the importance of agency and resistance, the last chapter documents the ways in which Chinese workers waged struggles against their status as contracted labor, arguing significantly that it was in their everyday struggles that democracy survived against the reinvigoration of white supremacy. Recasting Asian American history not as a history of "immigration and assimilation, but of labor migrations and resistance", Jung has produced a terrific and much-needed piece of scholarship that has the potential to unsettle and redefine the field.
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Chronicling American cane-making from 1607 through 1953, this beautifully illustrated book features canes in the context of American history. An ambitious and scholarly volume that includes over 900 images, this book features many of the canes shown at the celebrated cane exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York in the mid-1980s. Written by a cane collector and walking-stick expert whose private collection was estimated to be around 1,300 canes and whose enthusiasm inspired museums and wealthy private collectors to invest in the field, this book displays decades of work and dedication to the craft. Presented are canes used by past political figures, canes made of glass, and canes carved by soldiers from the American Revolution to World War II.
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Who Leads Whom? is an ambitious study that addresses some of the most important questions in contemporary American politics: Do presidents pander to public opinion by backing popular policy measures that they believe would actually harm the country? Why do presidents "go public" with policy appeals? And do those appeals affect legislative outcomes?
Analyzing the actions of modern presidents ranging from Eisenhower to Clinton, Brandice Canes-Wrone demonstrates that presidents' involvement of the mass public, by putting pressure on Congress, shifts policy in the direction of majority opinion. More important, she also shows that presidents rarely cater to the mass citizenry unless they already agree with the public's preferred course of action. With contemporary politics so connected to the pulse of the American people, Who Leads Whom? offers much-needed insight into how public opinion actually works in our democratic process. Integrating perspectives from presidential studies, legislative politics, public opinion, and rational choice theory, this theoretical and empirical inquiry will appeal to a wide range of scholars of American political processes.
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On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, Florida. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over 2,000 people. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad.
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For the Love of Muck.......2005-12-12
A natural disaster looms on the horizon but government and financial leaders play down the danger because of the possible loss of tourist and investor dollars. The public is than caught completely off-guard when the disaster strikes and the carnage is far worse than anyone could have predicted. If this scenario sounds familiar it's because Hollywood has served up this basic formula for years in films ranging from "Earthquake" to "Jaws." Robert Mykle has given us the very same plot in this book but in this case the story is horribly real.
In the early twentieth century there was a land boom in Florida as the wealthy discovered the warm climate and farmers discovered the extremely rich soil around the Everglades. World War I caused a great demand for vegetables and the rich "muck" of the Everglades could produce two or three excellent crops a year with green beans being the prime crop. With vegetable prices at an all time high the farmers of the area spent a great deal of time and effort trying to push Lake Okeechobee back in order to uncover more crop land. It never seemed to occur to them that one day the lake just might push back.
In 1928 when the category four "Killer 'Cane" hit the area the lake did indeed push back and by the time the storm had passed most of South Florida was under two to three feet of water. Of course two or three feet of water isn't going to kill many people but the eighteen foot storm surge created on the lake was more than capable of taking many thousands of lives. As recently as 2001 human bones were still being plowed up in fields where they were buried by the storm in the muck they had so lusted after. Unlike the disaster movie villains Hollywood has produced however the Florida authorities didn't learn their lesson and managed to undercount the dead by at least a thousand people so as not to scare away the tourists.
Robert Mykle has written a very credible account of this tragic event and his method is one that makes the hurricane seem very real. Much of the book is taken in introducing the reader to the people and places that are about to be blasted by this killer storm. The author goes back many years in tracing some of these families and their migration to the Everglades and he does manage to make the reader feel as if they actually know some of these people. His method succeeds in making all of the death, suffering and destruction hit home with the reader but he takes his method to extremes sometimes and goes back a bit too far, making the story drag a just a tad at times. He also makes several historical statements that are simply not true and although they don't deal directly with the storm these kinds of errors certainly hurt the author's credibility. Just to quickly mention three of these errors; Andrew Jackson was not born west of the Appalachian Mountains, General Meade was never removed as commander of the Army of the Potomac by Abe Lincoln and there were no Axis Powers in World War I. It's picky I know but someone writing a history book just shouldn't make these kinds of errors.
Overall though this was a very good and readable book. The author does an excellent job of relating pertinent meteorological data such a way that it made it clear and understandable and in a book like this one that is a very important task. His verbal descriptions of the devastation are also very good and his blow by blow description of the storm as it pounded its victims was extraordinarily good. Mykle in fact had done such a good job of introducing some families that I found myself hanging on every word to see who survived and who didn't.
In short, there are some flat spots in this book but it contains a story that needs to be told and told with heart. Robert Mykle has accomplished this task admirably.
Unimaginable destruction.......................2004-09-12
Killer 'cane is a well researched book about the 1928 hurricane that swept through the Caribbean and the Bahamas as a category 5 and then hit the Florida coast around Palm Beach.
The research includes 20 original interviews of individuals by the author and several interviews done by others, as well as numerous documents, books, articles and pamphlets.
The lack of forecasting knowledge, the limited understanding of the potential danger and the desire to not frighten people ( tourists and land investors) all combined with the sheer power of an approaching category 5 hurricane to create unimaginable devastation and destruction.
Robert Mykle gives the history of the Lake Okeechobee area, explaining the richness of the land, the potential for farming as well as the hardships faced. The creation of the wall to hold back the water seemed so right at the time. Mykle puts the human face on the disaster by introducing the families that lived and struggled with life on the edge of the Everglades, the farmers, the entrepreneurs, the migrant workers. We see and get a taste of their hopes and dreams, and then we see it all wiped clean.
Mykle also includes enough meteorology facts for a basic understanding of hurricane formation and motion.
Forecasting has come so far and yet there is still so much that can change, unpredictably, in the blink of an eye, that this is an important book to read to remind us of the pure power that a hurricane can unleash on us.
After having been through Fran, Bonnie, Floyd, Dennis (in NC) Isabel (in VA) and Charlie & Frances (in FL) and currently watching the approach of IVAN I think it is important to not grow complacent and to be able to put a human face on the destruction a hurricane leaves in it's wake.
The Story of a Nightmare Come True.......2004-06-01
Every adult who lives within 50 miles of the Atlantic or Gulf coasts of the United States should read Killer Cane. Hurricanes are deadly, but quiet hurricane seasons in the past decade have given coastal residents a sense that hurricanes won't hit them. But they will. I survived two hurricanes, and they were pure horror. They were Category One hurricanes, the weakest kind, but they tore off roofs and smashed property like gigantic maniacs.
Robert Mykle's fine book describes a Category Four hurricane that came ashore near Palm Beach in 1928. A Category One hurricane causes some damage, while a Category Five causes complete destruction, so you can imagine the strength of a Category Four. But destruction didn't stop at the coast. The hurricane moved inland to rip into the farming communities at the south end of Lake Okeechobee, 40-50 miles inland from Palm Beach. Winds of 150 miles-per-hour and more than 12 inches of rain destroyed almost everything in its path, and killed some 2000 people. The real cost of this disaster is the effect on its victims, and Mykle introduces us to many of the doomed families as they go about their business, not knowing that the day after tomorrow will be their last on earth. We come to care about them. We mourn those killed and feel the suffering of survivors in the aftermath. This is a great strength of the book, and Robert Mykle has done a terific job of presenting a harrowing story in human terms. It is well worth reading.
Tells the story from the human perspective.......2003-08-23
In the early period of the last century three great hurricanes devastated Florida. Miami was hit in 1926, The everglades in 28, and the keys in 35. The Miami storm is known for finishing the land boom and the keys storm is famous for being the most powerful hurricane ever and killing WWI veterans on work detail. Mykle's book examines the least well known of the three, the storm of 1928. The everglades storm actually killed the most people by far, but is less well remembered because most of its victims were poor and black. But the hurricane makes for a fascinating story in any case. Mykle tells it through the lives of several everglades families who experienced the calamity, often suffering considerable loss. He covers the disaster from several angles, and so there is something in this book for everyone.
My one fault with this book is that the author focuses a little too much on the individuals and not enough on other features of the catastrophe. We hear little, for instance, about what the hurricane did to Puerto Rico. But this should not dissuade anyone from buying the book on the killer Cane of 28.
Forgotten tragedy.......2003-04-18
I grew up in this area during the forties and fifties.I attended high school with many decedants of the victims and survivers of this disaster.The book seems to be quiet accurate and hits the nail on the head .It amazes me that it has to be the best kept secret of all diasters.I live in the neighboring state of Georgia,and when I ask people in this area about the storm no one has a clue.At the time it was the third worst disaster to have occured ,in terms of lives lost. What a shame.
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American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture
George H. Meyer
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The History of American Religion.......2004-10-01
Coming from a background that is neither of the Restoration Movement, nor of the Holiness movements that came from the Cane Ridge American revival period, I still found this book to be objective and interesting. Conkin, as previously stated by other reviewers, does an excellent job of presenting the materials in a way that is neither flattering, nor insulting to the frontier's people. Instead, he gives rational explanation for why they behave how they do and a peek into the 17th century religious mindset that would prompt the religious exercising. This is a book worth checking out, even according to this 20-something Bible College student.
Careful and objective.......2003-06-11
Much has been written about the "objectivity question" in history. Can a historian put his biases aside and write an objective account of an historical event? Conkin's Cane Ridge demonstrates with what dignity and power a historian is able to treat a religious movement to which he has little spiritual or emotional attachment. Conkin has written a first-rate intellectual history that includes the best delineation of biblical Christianity by a non-believer that I've ever read.
Conkin's careful examination of the 1801 Kentucky revival demonstrates that the religious changes which began there had roots deep in devout, but staid, Presbyterianism. Conkin rejects the notion that the revival was simply an example of frontier backwardness and downplays the swooning and "barking" that continue to be the staple of college lecturers.
A must read.......2000-04-23
History is. This book is about history. Few people (let alone christians) know the history of christian religious experience in the United States. This book provides a detailed and rare scholarly description of what happened during the August 1801 revival in Kentucky which has come to be known as the Cane Ridge revival. This book makes no attempt to provide a theological framework for revival, either for or against, nor the many experiences which may occur during and after revival. Rather, it is an honest and unbiased effort to give you a window to the past so you can see what happened and come to your own conclusions. I wish all books on revival were this well written!
WHERE IS THIS SECOND PENTECOST IN GOD'S WORD?.......1999-08-29
PLEASE GIVE CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR YOUR PENTECOST AND YOUR RESTORATION
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Focusing on the masterslave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mindset among planters meshed with oldstyle paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. But above all, labor management was the secret to the planters' impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency planters offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject. AUTHOR BIO: Richard Follett teaches American history at the University of Sussex, England.
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A very highly recommended addition to academic library collections.......2007-08-04
"The Sugar Masters: Planters And Slaves In Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860" by Richard Follett (American History Instructor, University of Sussex, England) is an analytical history of the employment of slaves in the sugar cane industry as practiced in Louisiana during the early 19th century. The focus is on labor management practices used to control and exploit a slave-oriented labor system within the contemporary context of capitalism, hierarch, paternalism, and ethics. A seminal contribution to pre-emancipation Louisiana, "The Sugar Masters" is a model of scholarship in terms of the underlying empirical research, as a demographic study, and in expanded our understanding of the social and cultural history of slavery, agricultural, and cultural practices of the era. A very highly recommended addition to academic library collections, "The Sugar Masters" is especially recommended reading for students in the disciplines of Black History, American History, Louisiana History, and American Economic History.
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Raising Cane: The World of Plantation Hawaii (Asian American Experience)
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