Racial Transformations

Dissatisfaction with the prevailing black/ white paradigm of racial discourse in the United States has been brewing for some time, but few scholarly works have complicated the color line. Racial Transformations is a unique volume that marvelously engages the intersection of Asian American and Latino studies and helps us grasp the distinct patterns of racialization among groups considered neither white nor black. The essays in the volume comparatively assess how Latinos and Asian Americans have been positioned in a white supremacist racial order, what the broader meanings of those positions are for understanding stratification and difference, and how those groups respond to and challenge the social locations imposed on them. Taken as a whole, the volume provocatively contributes “to the larger ongoing project of subverting the veritable balkanization of the various ethnic studies fields” (p. vii) and effectively illustrates how Latinos and Asian Americans are “dynamically implicated in historical as well as ongoing transnational recon-figurations of the broader social formation of the U.S. nation-state itself” (p. 16)

Asian americans · Color line · Ethnic group · Political science · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History

• Mobilization by Different Means

  Open Access•Melissa R Michelson, Lisa Garcia Bedolla•International Migration Review•2014

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