{"id":24611,"date":"2012-08-02T01:09:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24611"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:52:43","slug":"unsuitable-suitors-anti-miscegenation-laws-naturalization-laws-and-the-construction-of-asian-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24611","title":{"rendered":"Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1540-5893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law &amp; Society Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/lasr.2007.41.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Volume 41, Issue 3<\/a> (September 2007)<br \/>\npages 587\u2013618<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wm.edu\/as\/sociology\/directory\/sohoni_d.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deenesh Sohoni<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em> The College of William &amp; Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this article, I use state-level anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miscegenation<\/a> legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became categorized within the American racial system in the period between the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil War<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil rights movement of the 1960s<\/a>. I show how the labels used to describe Asian ethnic groups at the state level reflected and were constrained by national-level debates regarding the groups eligible for U.S. citizenship. My main point is that Asian ethnic groups originally were viewed as legally distinct\u2014racially and ethnically, and that members of these groups recognized and used these distinctions to seek social rights and privileges. The construction of \u201cAsian\u201d as a social category resulted primarily from congressional legislation and judicial rulings that linked immigration with naturalization regulations. Anti-miscegenation laws further contributed to the social exclusion of those of Asian ancestry by grouping together U.S.-born and foreign-born Asians.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities Law &amp; Society Review Volume 41, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 587\u2013618 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x Deenesh Sohoni, Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William &amp; Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,1467,8,394,20],"tags":[11459,3730],"class_list":["post-24611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-deenesh-sohoni","tag-law-society-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55710,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions\/55710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}