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... of Heroes alongside Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men , two works about Chinese labor on the transcontinental railroad, the chapter explores the interchangeability of Chinese labor, time, and money. Focusing on the range of gender and sexual substitutions represented in these texts, the chapter argues...

...Preface<subtitle>From Diasporic to Transcontinental Entanglement</subtitle> ...

... and in Uganda/African studies and South Asian diaspora studies, it examines the possibilities and limitations of knowledge production on the expulsion in the African postcolonial nativist university and intensifying transcontinental South-South connections and the global circulation of social and student...

... insecurities of expulsion global critical event expulsion exceptionalism transcontinental Uganda feminist anthropology ...

... The introduction presents “the insecurities of expulsion” as an overarching analytic concept, describing its components and their interrelation. It reframes Uganda’s1972 Asian expulsion as a “global critical event,” arguing that its aftermaths linger in contemporary and transcontinental Uganda...

... This chapter analyzes Senghor’s parliamentary campaign to transform the Fourth Republic’s French Union into a truly democratic federation, a union of peoples that would include former colonies as freely associated member states in a novel transcontinental political formation. Such a formation...

... and transcontinental Uganda. It introduces the term “expulsion exceptionalism” to indicate the ways in which Uganda, Black Africa, Idi Amin, and the 1972 Asian expulsion are understood through global and racialized imaginaries of illiberalism in relation to an imagined liberal West and a liberal Indian nation...

... neoliberal developmental authoritarianisms. Museveni and the NRM are engaged in the noncitizen racial incorporation of Indian entrepreneurs and other South Asian migrants and laborers, constructing “Asians” as valuable investor-citizens. These new practices have relied upon new transcontinental assertions...