Racial reconstruction : black inclusion Chinese exclusion and the fictions of citizenship Introduction: Black inclusion Chinese exclusion: toward a cultural history of comparative Racialization Cosa de Cuba!: American literary travels empire and the contract Coolie From emancipation to exclusion: racial analogy in Afro Asian periodical print culture American futures past: the counterfactual histories of Chinese invasion Boycotting exclusion: the transpacific politics of Chinese sentimentalism Conclusion: Against historicism: James D. Corrothers and speculations on our racial futures