Racial Asymmetries. Stephen Hong Sohn
relationships forged and the antagonisms that erupt between Chicanos and Asian Americans.
As one of the states closest to Asia, California consistently beckoned to Asian migrants as a robust center for numerous industries, ranging from agriculture to technology. At the same time, California’s economic history cannot be constituted solely from the perspective of Asian labor, as historians such as Tomás Almaguer and Kevin Starr have shown. Indeed, California’s vexed past includes the colonial exploitation and enslavement of indigenous populations, the systematic restructuring of the agricultural industry through the recruitment of transnational Mexican guest workers, and the influx of African American workers during the Second Great Migration. In relation to these multiracial contexts, Asian American writers do engage with such intricate social and historical formations within their representational terrains. I am particularly attentive to writers such as Carlos Bulosan, Brian Ascalon Roley, Bhira Backhaus, and Sesshu Foster, all of whom explore the connections and complications that arise between Asian American and Chicano characters. These writers present an exceptional subset within the Asian American literary archive in that their fictions conspicuously depict characters of other racial minority populations.
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