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Racial Transformations - Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Paperback)
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Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial
discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection
examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the
formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and
social processes that have racialized Latinos and Asians while
highlighting the productive ways that these communities challenge
and transform the identities imposed on them. Each essay addresses
the sociopolitical predicaments of both Latinos and Asians,
bringing their experiences to light in relation to one
another.Several contributors illuminate ways that Latinos and
Asians were historically racialized: by U.S. occupiers of Puerto
Rico and the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century, by
public health discourses and practices in early-twentieth-century
Los Angeles, by anthropologists collecting physical data-height,
weight, head measurements-from Chinese Americans to show how the
American environment affected "foreign" body types in the 1930s,
and by Los Angeles public officials seeking to explain the alleged
criminal propensities of Mexican American youth during the 1940s.
Other contributors focus on the coalitions and tensions between
Latinos and Asians in the context of the fight to integrate public
schools and debates over political redistricting. One addresses
masculinity, race, and U.S. imperialism in the literary works of
Junot Diaz and Chang-rae Lee. Another looks at the passions,
identifications, and charges of betrayal aroused by the
sensationalized cases of Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy
rescued off the shore of Florida, and Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos
physicist accused of spying on the United States. Throughout this
volume contributors interrogate many of the assumptions that
underlie American and ethnic studies even as they signal the need
for a research agenda that expands the purview of both fields.
Contributors. Nicholas De Genova, Victor Jew, Andrea Levine,
Natalia Molina, Gary Y. Okihiro, Crystal Parikh, Greg Robinson,
Toni Robinson, Leland T. Saito
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