Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

by Susan Koshy

Book Overview

Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial hierarchies produced by antimiscegenation laws, and their role in shaping cultural norms. Not only did these laws foster the reproduction of the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747288
• ISBN13: 9780804747288
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"