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Scars of War
2021
Overview
Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers
denying the Amerasians of Vietnam-the biracial sons and daughters
of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam
War-American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982
Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act,
Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population
unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had
American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship
was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford,
Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in
a Cold War era, America's defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history
in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and
citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian
descent. Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of
War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the
aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory
approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism
with the U.S. Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse
deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and
humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated
exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for
American citizenship.
Publisher
Nebraska,University of Nebraska Press
Subject
ISBN
1496200543, 9781496200549
