| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945. By Colleen Lye. (Prince-ton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii, 342 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-691-11418-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-691-11419-6.)
Through a densely historicized, insightful reading of literary naturalism, Colleen Lye makes important contributions to understanding U.S. political, economic, and social history.	1
Most broadly, Lye traces the genealogy of what she calls the "racial form" of Asia and Asian America in American polity and discourse. She demonstrates that the turn-of-the-century fear of the yellow peril and the 1960s trope of the model minority are, rather than being opposites, intimately connected in their racialized signification of economic efficiency. She shows how the connection between industrial capitalism and Asians was naturalized in the works of such diverse writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, Peter Kyne, Wallace Irwin, John Steinbeck, and Pearl S. Buck. She grounds such textual readings in thoroughly researched economic history and social policy, showing that these literary representations shaped and were shaped by the materiality of both America's domestic social relations and the transnational movement of capital and labor across the Pacific Ocean.	. . .

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