whiteness through anti- Asian exclusion and unionization efforts as well as in racial prerequisite cases that barred Asians from naturalization, Asians are viewed as the opposite of both whiteness and Americanness.20
40 Journal of American Ethnic History Winter 2017 Volume 36, Number 2 © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Debating the Racial Turn in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History ANNA PEGLER- GORDON WHAT IS THE RACIAL TURN IN U.S. ethnic and immigration his- tory? It is often understood as a […]
