Abstract

In this essay, I analyze anti-Chinese rhetoric produced by the Knights of Labor to explore how labor functions as a performance of citizenship. I argue that Knights deployed citizenship as a embodiable topos, using the physicality of labor as a channel to claim inclusion in the national polity despite their marginalized class status.

Journal
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published
2016-01-01
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2015.1106576
CompPile
Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export

Citation Context

References (72) · 3 in this index

  1. 10.1080/00335630903512697
  2. General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11. National Archives. Web.…
  3. Quarterly Journal of Speech 90.2
  4. Ideology, Materiality, and Counterpublicity: William E. Simon and the Rise of a Conservat…
    Quarterly Journal of Speech  
  5. “Assemblies of Colored Men.” Journal of United Labor Aug. 1882: 49. Print.
Show all 72 →
  1. “The Second Persona.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 56.2
  2. You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric
  3. The American Radical Press, 1880-1960
  4. The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action
  5. 10.1080/10510970802257705
  6. 10.1080/10570310802038713
  7. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
  8. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
  9. The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
  10. Contaminated Communities: The Metaphor of ‘Immigrant as Pollutant’ in Media Representatio…
    Rhetoric & Public Affairs  
  11. Masculinities: Second Edition
  12. The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
  13. Dasler Johnson, Wendy. “Cultural Rhetorics of Women’s Corsets.” Rhetoric Review 20.3–4
  14. 10.1080/00028533.1999.11951634
  15. Chinese Labor
    Journal of United Labor 1.4
  16. Caliban and the Witch
  17. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
  18. History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 2: From the Founding of the A. F.…
  19. 10.1215/9780822390237
  20. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
  21. Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public
  22. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
  23. Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media
  24. Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
  25. “Rhetorics, Bodies, and Everyday Life.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36.2
  26. Race and Ethnicity in Organized Labor: The Historical Sources of Resistance to Affirmativ…
    Journal of Intergroup Relations
  27. 10.1515/9780804766302
  28. 10.1080/00335630600687123
  29. Rhetorical Bodies
  30. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195143485.001.0001
  31. 10.1080/10417949709373075
  32. Rhetoric Review
  33. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  34. 10.1080/0033563042000255543
  35. “The Chinese Question
    Journal of United Labor 6.18
  36. Montana: The Magazine of Western History
  37. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920
  38. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943
  39. The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878–1921
  40. Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border
  41. China’s Menace to the World
  42. The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance
  43. The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-Day
  44. 10.7591/9781501742699
  45. 10.1108/01443339810788425
  46. The Rights of Labor
    Journal of United Labor
  47. 10.1080/00335630.2010.499108
  48. Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans
  49. The Path I Trod; the Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly
  50. Citizenship Studies 9.5
  51. 10.1080/00335630701326845
  52. 10.1080/00335630701449340
  53. Restriction of Chinese Labor
    Journal of United Labor 4.20
  54. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
  55. Orientalism
  56. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
  57. Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse
  58. Like an Animal I Was Treated’: Anti-Immigrant Metaphor in US Public Discourse
    Discourse & Society  
  59. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
  60. 10.1080/10510979109368321
  61. Subscribe for the Journal
    Journal of United Labor 1.4
  62. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
  63. “The Negro.” Journal of United Labor 24 Sept. 1887: 2495. Print.
  64. 10.1080/002365600449137
  65. College Composition and Communication
  66. 10.1080/00335630308178
  67. 10.1080/00335630209384368