In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been ...(展开全部)

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial...(展开全部)

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial...(展开全部)

Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals t...(展开全部)

阿兰·瑞安（Alan Ryan），政治学家、政治评论家、英国国家学术院院士。 他生于1940年，1988年开始任美国普林斯顿大学政治学教授，1996年至2009年间，担任牛津大学新学院（New College, Oxford University）院长。之后，他还陆续执 教于普林斯顿大学政治学系和斯坦福大学哲学系，2015年退休。 瑞安的研究领域非常广泛，跨越政治理论、哲学和法学，专攻自由主义政治理论，并且是斯图尔特·穆勒、约翰·杜威思想研究方面的权威。同时，瑞安也是一个关心公共事务的学者，针对世界的政治时事发表过大量的讲座与评论，并长期为《纽约书评》《伦敦书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰写书评和时事评论。 林华（译者），联合国高级翻译，在联合国总部工作30余年，现为同声传译中文组负责人。主要译著、合译著包括《论中国》《世界秩序》《从黎明到衰落》《战争史...(展开全部)

阿兰·瑞安（Alan Ryan），政治学家、政治评论家、英国国家学术院院士。 他生于1940年，1988年开始任美国普林斯顿大学政治学教授，1996年至2009年间，担任牛津大学新学院（New College, Oxford University）院长。之后，他还陆续执 教于普林斯顿大学政治学系和斯坦福大学哲学系，2015年退休。 瑞安的研究领域非常广泛，跨越政治理论、哲学和法学，专攻自由主义政治理论，并且是斯图尔特·穆勒、约翰·杜威思想研究方面的权威。同时，瑞安也是一个关心公共事务的学者，针对世界的政治时事发表过大量的讲座与评论，并长期为《纽约书评》《伦敦书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰写书评和时事评论。 林华（译者），联合国高级翻译，在联合国总部工作30余年，现为同声传译中文组负责人。主要译著、合译著包括《论中国》《世界秩序》《从黎明到衰落》《战争史...(展开全部)

愛德華．史都華（Edward C. Stewart） 為美國認知心理學專家，畢業於德州大學的心理學系，隨後在美國多所大學任教。他生長於一個異族通婚的家庭，家族成員來自法國、瑞士、美國南部、以及巴西，以致於他自幼即對不同文化之間的差異很有銳利的觀察能力。 米爾頓．班奈特（Milton J. Bennett） 在太平洋各小島擔任和平隊志工（Peace Corps volunteer）的經驗讓他對不同民族截然不同、但各具特色與智慧的文化模式著迷不已，畢業於明尼蘇達大學大眾傳播學系之後，於波特蘭州立大學任教，鑽研跨文化交流與自我意識研究，並於1986年成立了非營利教育單位「跨文化交流研究中心」（The Intercultural Communication Institute），2006年成立了「跨文化發展研究中心」（Intercultural Devel...(展开全部)

In "The Cultural Politics of the Emotions," Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cul...(展开全部)

In "The Cultural Politics of the Emotions," Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cul...(展开全部)

"American Kinship" is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less diff...(展开全部)