... creating an America where we would "deal justly" with one another was turn-of-the-century Eurasian journalist and fiction writer Sui Sin Far. In an essay entitled "The Chinese in America," Sui Sin Far laments western literary depictions of the Chinese that portray them as "unfeeling" and "custom-bound." " ... . They love those who love them; they hate those who hate; are kind, affectionate, cruel or selfish, as the case may be". Through this comparison Sui Sin Far decanters whiteness as the standard of what is "human," a move that is in fact central too much of her work, as Annette ... W...

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