from Part I - Immigration, Migration, and Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2021
This chapter explores the irony of Asian Americans as both scrutinized and invisible in a group of Asian American literary works written between 1965 and 1995. These subjects are perceived as remarkable for their racial difference. However, racist laws before 1965 governed their legal status, subsequently circumscribing them politically, socially, and culturally. The paradox of being overly acknowledged for racial difference while ignored as a political or other agential subject renders the Asian American an impossible subject. Indeed, Asian Americans have existed in a state of inconceivability.
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