Book Review: Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

The United States -- land of immigrants, historically considered a multicultural melting pot -- has recently become the setting of an outbreak of xenophobia. All manner of peoples standing outside of the mainstream encounter 'exclusionary geographies' that can be mapped, interpreted, and critiqued, with sensitivity shown to both structuring forces from without and felt forces from within. These people may be excluded because of who they are, how they look, what they do and think, and are therefore deemed 'out of place' or even 'trespassers' in a range of mainstream spaces (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts, and Whatmore 2009). Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia is organized around landscapes that tell a story about Asian Americans' struggles to make their homes in Silicon Valley.