| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. By Moon-Ho Jung. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 275 pp. $48.95, ISBN 0-8018-8281-8.)

Moon-Ho Jung's brilliant and beautifully written Coolies and Cane is not primarily a social history of Chinese labor in the cane fields of Louisiana. Its subject is the stereotype of the Chinese as "coolies," as an easily subjugated race, and "coolieism," the prospect or threat of (ostensibly) voluntary contract laborers from Asia entering the United States, or, in this case, taking the place of enslaved African Americans on Louisiana's sugar plantations. Thus the focus of the book is on the Americans who fought bitterly over coolies, both those who desperately wanted to import them and those who vehemently fought to exclude them.

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