Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S. Nationalism 1
5. Part One: Racial Science, Social Control
6. 1. COLONIAL VISION, RACIAL VISIBILITY 1 Racializations in Puerto Rico and the Philippines during the Initial Period of U.S. Colonization 23
7. 2. INVERTING RACIAL LOGIC How Public Health Discourse and Standards Racialized the Meanings of Japanese and Mexican in Los Angeles, 1910–1924 40
8. 3. GETTING THE MEASURE OF TOMORROW Chinese and Chicano Americas under the Racial Gaze, 1934–1935 and 1942–1944 62
9. Part Two: Contradictions of Coalition
10. 4. THE LIMITS OF INTERRACIAL COALITIONS Méndez v. Westminster Reexamined 93
11. 5. THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE Asian American and Latino Redistricting Debates in California and New York 120
12. Part Three: Perils of Inclusion
13. 6. JOINING THE STATE Sexuality and Citizenship in Junot Díaz and Chang-rae Lee 147
14. 7. THE PASSION The Betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee 170
15. Bibliography 209
16. Contributors 221
17. Index 223