Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka suggests that the Transcontinental Railroad is a useful lens through which to view issues relating continental imperialism, countersovereignty, and capitalist modes of production.
Articles by Julia H. Lee
Julia H. Lee is associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (New York University Press, 2010) and Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (University of South Carolina Press, 2016). Her book-in-progress, The Racial Railroad, examines the prevalence of the train as a setting for scenes of racial formation and conflict in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American cultural texts. She teaches courses on a variety of subjects including the Asian American bildungsroman, contemporary Asian American fiction, race and urban space, Asian American women, and critical race studies.