De Genova Racial Transformations

Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8761-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

A collection of essays that examine the intertwined racialization of Latinos and Asians in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Genova, Nicholas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Okihiro, Gary Y.

Molina, Natalia

Jew, Victor

Robinson, Toni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas De Genova is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago, also published by Duke University Press, and a coauthor of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship.