%0 Journal Article
%T Cultural Nationalism, Orientalism, Imperial Ambivalence: The <em>Colored American Magazine</em> and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
%A Yu-Fang Cho
%J Journal of Transnational American Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X This essay examines African American novelist Pauline Hopkins¡¯s deployment of the trope of respectable domesticity to contest black disenfranchisement in the context of African Americans¡¯ ambivalent relationship to late-nineteenth-century US imperial expansion in the Asia Pacific. This essay analyzes Contending Forces (1900) in relation to two crucial yet underexplored contexts: first, Hopkins¡¯s commentaries on international race relations; second, African American intellectuals¡¯ commentaries on US imperial ventures in the Asia Pacific and on Chinese immigration in the Colored American Magazine, where Hopkins¡¯s fictional works were serialized. Situated within these contexts of comparative racialization, Hopkins¡¯s works offer critical responses to the masculine nationalist representations of black¨CAsian relations, illuminating the divisive effects of nationalist identification on differentially racialized subjects, the uneven effects of marriage on the black community, and this institution¡¯s structural ties to imperialism and to the color-based class hierarchy within the imagined black community¡ªall of which call for radical reimagining of race relations beyond the nation form.
%K Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
%K US Imperialism
%K Asia Pacific
%K Interracial Relations
%K Marriage
%K Black Orientalism
%U https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/7084