| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture. By Robert G. Lee. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. xiv, 271 pp. $27.95, isbn 1-56639-658-1.)

Because it engages so many critical debates, this brilliant and highly compressed book almost defies brief review. Like much of an important new literature on race, Orientals successfully insists both on complexity and on political engagement. It makes noteworthy interdisciplinary methodological contributions, especially in demonstrating the indispensability of political economy in the study of identity and vice versa. It deploys theory—ranging from Mary Douglas's work on pollution to that of Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, and Sigmund Freud—in close connection to a rigorous examination of primary sources. Most remarkably, it shows repeatedly that theories of sexuality, and queer theory in particular, illuminate the history of racial formation decisively. . . .

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