Nicholas De Genova

Racial Transformations

Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Herausgeber: De Genova, Nicholas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This collection marks an important intervention in the history and historiography of 'race, ' ethnicity, immigration, and citizenship in the United States. The essays offer important and provocative rationales for thinking through these complex issues from a broader comparative and critical perspective."--David G. Gutierrez, author of "Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337164
• ISBN-10: 0822337169
• Artikelnr.: 21400910

Autorenporträt

Nicholas De Genova, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S.
Nationalism / Nicholas De Genova 1
Part One: Racial Science, Social Control
1. Colonial Vision, Racial Visibility: Racializations in Puerto Rico and
the Philippines during the Initial Period of U.S. Colonization / Gary Y.
Okihiro 23
2. Inverting Racial Logic: How Public Health Discourse and Standards
Racialized the Meanings of Japanese and Mexican in Los Angeles, 1910–1924 /
Natalia Molina 40
3. Getting the Measure of Tomorrow: Chinese and Chicano Americans under the
Racial Gaze, 1934–1935 and 1942–1944 / Victor Jew 62
Part Two: Contradictions of Coalition
4. The Limits of Interracial Coalitions: Méndez v. Westminster Reexamined /
Toni Robinson and Greg Robinson 93
5. The Political Significance of Race: Asian American and Latino
Redistricting Debates in California and New York / Leland T. Saito 120
Part Three: Perils of Inclusion
6. Joining the State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Junot Díaz and Chang-rae
Lee / Andrea Levine 147
7. The Passion: The Betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee / Crystal
Parikh 170
Bibliography 209
Contributors 221
Index 223