Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S. Nationalism

As the color of our skin began to confuse the color line drawn tyrannically between blacks and whites in the United States—segregated in the respective corners of their misplaced confidence about their races—we Asians and Latinos, Arabs, Turks, Africans, Iranians, Armenians, Kurds, Afghans and South Asians were instantly brought together beyond the uncommon denominator of our origin and towards the solidarity of our emerging purpose.