The way American modern psychology approaches research on Asian Americans raises problematic issues regarding national race relations and oppression. Race is typically treated as a nominal, present-versus-absent category, such as on a census checklist or demographics questionnaire, and the complexity of racial experience is all but ignored. This book uses postmodern methodology to highlight the ambiguity of race, specifically Asian American race. In accordance with the scholarship of Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Dana Takagi, and Laura Uba, the author exposes how race operates simultaneously as...