Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities
Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities
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不合适的追求者：反异族通婚法、入籍法和亚洲身份的构建
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2007
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Deenesh Sohoni
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Deenesh Sohoni
在这篇文章中，我使用州一级的反通婚立法来研究在南北战争和20世纪60年代民权运动之间的时期，亚裔群体是如何在美国种族制度中被分类的。我展示了在州一级用来描述亚裔群体的标签是如何反映并受到关于有资格获得美国公民身份的群体的国家层面辩论的限制的。我的主要观点是，亚洲族群最初在法律上被视为在种族和民族上是独特的，这些群体的成员承认并利用这些区别来寻求社会权利和特权。“亚洲人”作为一个社会类别的建构主要源于国会立法和司法裁决，这些立法和裁决将移民与入籍条例联系在一起。反异族通婚法将在美国出生和在外国出生的亚洲人归为一类，进一步加剧了对亚洲血统的社会排斥。
In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became categorized within the American racial system in the period between the Civil War and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. 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—racially and ethnically, and that members of these groups recognized and used these distinctions to seek social rights and privileges. The construction of “Asian” 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.