Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies By Erin Aeran Chung. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii, 261 pp. $34.99 Paperback/$28.00 Ebook.

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maintain white supremacy. This is a superb book that should be read carefully by all students of American politics, international migration, and democratic citizenship. My only criticism is that I think the book would have benefitted from a more fully developed explication of the settler colonial foundations of U.S. racial politics. That is, like Olson’s seminal work on white democracy, this book rests on the notion that the U.S. is a settler colonial country but doesn’t fully articulate the meaning of this assertion in a polity that has virtually erased the memory of its own foundations. Many readers, I suspect, would have benefitted from a fuller treatment.