| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States. Ed. by Nicholas De Genova. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. viii, 233 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 0-8223-3704-5. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8223-3716-9.)
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.	1
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).	. . .

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