Being White: Stories of Race and Racism

small family businesses, these respondents attempt to absorb those differences by recasting them as “normal.” A related chapter explores the demands placed on children in the family business and how they grappled with juggling their adult (work) roles and their family status as children. I hope that family scholars find their way to this book despite the lack of family identifiers in the book’s title, back cover description, and subject categorization. While this book clearly contributes in several ways to our conceptual and empirical understanding of second generation Asian Americans, readers should be prepared to find that the theoretical notion of social citizenship is sometimes only loosely connected to the data analysis and not as empirically elaborated as might be anticipated. Nonetheless, these findings offer an informative description of second generation Asian Americans from entrepreneurial families and the way they narratively construct their experiences so as to cast themselves as legitimate members of American society. Given the renewed energy with which non-whites have been excluded from social inclusion in the U.S. in recent years (e.g., voting irregularities in the 2000 presidential election, government response to victims of Hurricane Katrina, racial profiling of terrorists, anti-immigrant policies), sociologists must do a better job of attending to the racialized meanings of social citizenship. Consuming Citizenship provides us with some theoretical frames and conceptual tools for doing just that.