Asian/American: historical crossings of a racial frontier

Introduction Part I. Modernity, Asia, America: 1. Pacific America: projection, introjection, and the beginnings of modern Asian America 2. Rescripting the imaginary Part II. Bodies and Souls: 3. Written on the face: race, nation, migrancy, and sex 4. Transacting culture: bodies at the seam of the social Part III. Modeling the Nation: 5. Citizens and subnations 6. Disintegrations and reconsolidations Part IV. Placing Asian America: 7. War, the homeland, and the traces of memory 8. Demarcations and fissures: reconstructing space Part V. Mind Readings: 9. Double trouble: the pathology of ethnicity meets white schizophrenia 10. Asia Pacific: a transnational imaginary Conclusion Appendix Notes Index.