ABSTRACT
Part of my intention in this chapter is to read racially and nationally oppressed Asian immigrants in correlation with historical, legal, and economic circumstances into which minority groups were positioned in the United States during the twentieth century. To my thinking, this analysis is essential, because of academic cultural tendencies to examine multi-ethnic and racial relations solely in cultural contexts, which effaces all recognition that U.S. multiculturalism is a historical consequence that resulted from U.S. economic expansionism and the labor migration of various racial/ ethnic and national groups to the United States.
