Black Chinese: History, Hybridity, And Home‪.‬

(Original Title: Black Chinese: Historical Intersections, Hybridity, and the Creation of Home) In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname. But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites are introduced into dialogue with Chineseness and Chinese American history in order to create a different story?