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“Asia,” “Asians,” and “Asian Americans” have always been on contested and tenuous terrain in their relationship with the US nationstate. According to Asian American Studies scholar and cultural critic Lisa Lowe, the development of US capitalism and the American citizen have been defined against the Asian immigrant (though not limited to Asians), legally, economically, and culturally.1 By all means, immigration exclusion acts, naturalization laws, and education policies and practices continue to be used to regulate Asian bodies, but how these bodies are racialized has varied historically and contextually.
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Lam, K.D. (2015). Critical Theories of Racism and Asian American Identities: A Materialist Critique. In: Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling. Palgrave Macmillan’s Postcolonial Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475596_3
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