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Asian Americans are considered to be “honorary” Whites (Tuan, 1998). This means that they are positioned as middlemen within the existing Black-White racial binary. In this racial binary, Asian Americans are triangulated between African Americans and Whites.
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Hartlep, N.D., Hayes, C. (2013). Interrupting the Racial Triangulation of Asians. In: Hayes, C., Hartlep, N.D. (eds) Unhooking from Whiteness. Constructing Knowledge. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-377-5_9
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