Reviewed by Kim Geron | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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*The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition*. By Thomas P. Kim. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. viii + 194 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Thomas Kim draws on the pioneering work of Paul Frymer on party politics to explore how racism is entrenched in America's party system. He draws on multiple approaches to demonstrate that the political logic of two-party competition actually works against Asian American political interests. He seeks to translate "how cultural constructions of race are mediated through different institutional settings" (p. 127).	1
This book begins by exploring how the two-party system operates in the United States and its stable institutional features. Kim then positions Asian Americans in relationship to this two-party framework to argue that party leaders who seek to establish majority party power must incorporate existing racialized images of Asian Americans into their political strategic thinking. This has produced negative effects for Asian American political empowerment at the national level. Party elites understand that Asians and Asian Americans in the United States can be positioned outside the ideological boundaries of American consensus around liberal values.	. . .

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