Racial transformations : Latinos and Asians remaking the United States / edited by Nicholas De Genova.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: De Genova, Nicholas
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Duke University Press Books.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government.
Asian Americans > Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Physical Description:viii, 233 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : Latino and Asian racial formations at the frontiers of U.S. nationalism
  • 1. Colonial vision, racial visibility : racializations in Puerto Rico and the Philippines during the initial period of U.S. colonization
  • 2. Inverting racial logic : how public health discourse and standards racialized the meanings of Japanese and Mexican in Los Angeles, 1910-1924
  • 3. Getting the measure of tomorrow : Chinese and Chicano Americas under the racial gaze, 1934-1935 and 1942-1944
  • 4. The limits of interracial coalitions : Méndez v. Westminster reexamined
  • 5. The political significance of race : Asian American and Latino redistricting debates in California and New York
  • 6. Joining the state : sexuality and citizenship in Junot Díaz and Chang-rae Lee
  • 7. The passion : the betrayals of Elian González and Wen Ho Lee.