Reviewed by Lisa García Bedolla | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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*Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States*. Edited by Nicholas De Genova. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. vii + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
The recent immigration marches, increasing numbers of immigration raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and contentious political debates around immigration reform all speak to the complex ways in which Latino and Asian American immigration, and Latinos and Asian Americans themselves, are framed and understood in the United States. This edited volume provides historical contexts for these issues along with an exceptionally rich set of analytical tools for the interrogation of Latino and Asian American subjectivity within the nation. Although edited volumes are often uneven or not very coherent, this volume's contributions all present substantive new information and analysis of a variety of historical events from highly interdisciplinary perspectives. Together they shed important new light on the transnational nature of U.S. race relations and their role in (re)constructing the American national subject.	1
De Genova's insightful introduction sets the tone in arguing that the key to unlocking the black-white racial order in the United States may be found in the history of Native Americans. "Blackness" was defined as "inside" the U.S. racial order and "savagery," or the indigenous population, was seen as "outside." Thus, racialization as "foreign," or "outside," is a part of U.S. colonialism that necessitated the removal of Native Americans. Subsequent incursions into Latin America and Asia should be seen as extensions of this colonialism, rendering Native American racialization "a decisive ideological template in the material and practical subordination of Latinos and Asians" (p. 10), who are continually constructed as foreign.	. . .

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