Perpetually assigned to the subject position of outsiders within, Asian immigrants and Americans of Asian descent exist in America as what I call "interstitial ethnic subjects." As David Palumbo-Liu points out, a border crossing creates a new diasporic identity: "In the Asian American narratives," Palumbo-Liu points out, this movement produces "at once diaspora and ethnicity," for "the reconstitution of the subject as a subject in diaspora takes place at the same moment that the subject is labeled 'foreign. "273 The "interstitial ethnic subjects" are such a product of diasporic border crossing Palumbo-Liu discusses. Hence, these interstitial ethnic subjects have both spatial and racial or ethnic implications. They are placed strategically in the liminal zone between the potentially threatening or polluted outside and the guarded inside, and they are often used by a white hegemonic society to strengthen and promote its economic, political, and cultural stability and advantage. In addition, being an Asian-American in America means being caught in the strife between the blacks and the whites. There are numerous historical cases that illustrate the interstitial plight of Asian- Americans. Asian-Americans have straddled the national demarcating line that treacherously changes its landscape depending on the dominant econo-political climate and demands of each era, and for this reason, their lives and their precarious rights have been subjected to a series of immigration laws that frequently oscillate between admitting and later excluding the immigration of the same Asian national groups for various changing reasons of their being a source of cheap labor, a cultural peril, political enemies or allies. For instance, World War II and the American alliance with China led to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. Consequently, Chinese immigrants and their