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Asian/American - Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Hardcover)
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Asian/American - Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Hardcover)
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This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities
serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America.
By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating
dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a deeper
understanding of key issues in American culture, history, and
society.
The formation of America in the twentieth century has had
everything to do with "westward expansion" "across" the "Pacific
frontier" and the movement of Asians onto American soil. After the
passage of the last piece of anti-Asian legislation in the 1930's,
the United States found it had to grapple with both the presence of
Asians already in America and the imperative to develop its
neocolonial interests in East Asia. The author argues that, under
these double imperatives, a great wall between "Asian" and
"American" is constructed precisely when the two threatened to
merge. Yet the very incompleteness of American identity has allowed
specific and contingent fusion of "Asian" and "American" at
particular historical junctures.
From the importation of Asian labor in the mid-nineteenth century,
the territorialization of Hawaii and the Philippines in the
late-nineteenth century, through wars with Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam and the Cold War with China, to today's Asian Pacific
Economic Cooperation group, the United States in the modern age has
seen its national identity as strongly attached to the Pacific. As
this has taken place, so has the formation of a variety of Asian
American identities. Each contains a specific notion of America and
reveals a particular conception of "Asian" and "American."
Complicating the usual notion of "identity politics" and drawing on
a wide range of writings--sociological, historical, cultural,
medical, anthropological, geographic, economic, journalistic, and
political--the author studies both how the formation of these
identifications discloses the response of America to the presence
of Asians and how Asian Americans themselves have inhabited these
roles and resisted such categorizations, inventing their own
particular subjectivities as Americans.
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