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Article: Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2001
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Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier. By David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. vi plus 504 pp.).
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier is a book that historians will likely find more suggestive than definitive, but it is nonetheless one of the most insightful books currently available on twentieth-century Asian American history. The author, David Palumbo-Liu, exemplifies the best of the emerging field of cultural studies, combining history, literary criticism, and political critique to offer pointed analyses of American pasts and presents. Building on the work of a dozen cultural ...