Unsuitable suitors: Anti-miscegenation laws, naturalization laws, and the construction of Asian identities

Law and Society Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 587-618

  Sohoni, Deenesh ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary

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EID: 34548421179     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: 15405893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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