"At long last a study that theorized the crucial place of the Asian American Immigrant Subject in the historical constitution of "the color line," and thus, in the making of America. Tracing the genealogy of Asian immigrant labor and cultural production in the racial and gender formations of the pre-World War II, and contemporary U.S. State, Lisa Lowe offers us an ambitious, elegant, and incisive analysis that propels Asian immigrant women workers (and comparative feminist theory) to the center of discourses of nation and citizenship. Truly a book for the twenty first century."–Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Hamilton College