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"Xiaojian Zhao's Remaking Chinese America is an important addition
to Chinese American history, focusing on family formation and
reconstitution in an as yet little-studied era." --Roger Daniels,
Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
"Using records from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as
well as Chinatown newspapers, records from and about Chinese
American organizations, and oral interviews, Zhao has presented a
previously unknown perspective of Chinese America in a skillfully
constructed mosaic." --Sue Fawn Chung, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas In Remaking Chinese America, Xiaojian Zhao explores the
myriad forces that changed and unified Chinese Americans during a
key period in American history. Prior to 1940, this immigrant
community was predominantly male, but between 1940 and 1965 it was
transformed into a family-centered American ethnic community. Zhao
pays special attention to forces both inside and outside the
country in order to explain these changing demographics. Careful
attention is paid to evolving gender roles, since women constituted
the majority of newcomers, significantly changing the sex ratio of
the Chinese American population. In defining the political
circumstances that brought the Chinese together as a cohesive
political body, Zhao delves into the complexities they faced when
questioning their personal national allegiances during World War II
and the Communist takeover of mainland China. Remaking Chinese
America uses a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories,
newspapers, genealogical documents, and immigration files to
illuminate what it was like to be Chinese living in the United
States during a period that--until now--has been little studied.
Xiaojian Zhao is an associate professor of Asian American studies
at the University of California, Santa Barbara
This is the first large-scale analysis of immigrant life in America
to focus on habits of consumption. Hienze relies on primary sources
to show how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption in
America, familiarizing themselves with activities such as
installment buying, vacationing, and advertising. Heinze examines
the relationship between American consumption and holidays; the
importance of the immigrant Jewish woman as director of family
spending; the significance of clothing; and the high status of the
parlour and the piano in Jewish homes.
This seminal work in several fields--person-centered anthropology,
comparative psychology, and social history--documents the inner
life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same
time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds
interact. "Tahitians "is an ethnography focused on private but
culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for
the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural,
and personal spheres.
"This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No
review could substitute for reading it."--Margaret Mead, " American
Anthropologist "
Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach,
this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of
leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical
information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many
long-standing myths about the disease. Drawing on her 30 years of
research on the infection, Charlotte Roberts begins by outlining
its bacterial causes, how it spreads, and how it affects the body.
She then considers its diagnosis and treatment, both historically
and in the present. She also looks at the methods and tools used by
paleopathologists to identify signs of leprosy in skeletons.
Examining evidence in human remains from many countries,
particularly in Europe and including Britain, Hungary, and Sweden,
Roberts demonstrates that those affected were usually buried in the
same cemeteries as their communities, contrary to the popular
belief that they were all ostracized or isolated from society into
leprosy hospitals. Other myths addressed by Roberts include the
assumptions that leprosy can't be cured, that leprosy is no longer
a problem today, and that what is called "leprosy" in the Bible is
the same illness as the disease with that name now. Roberts
concludes by projecting the future of leprosy, arguing that
researchers need to study the disease through an ethically grounded
evolutionary perspective. Importantly, she advises against use of
the word "leper" to avoid perpetuating stigma today surrounding
people with the infection and resulting disabilities. Leprosy will
stand as the authoritative source on the subject for years to come.
A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the
Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by
Clark Spencer Larsen.
In this new work, Linda Espana-Maram analyzes the politics of
popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's
Little Manila, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos'
participation in leisure activities, including the thrills of
Chinatown's gambling dens, boxing matches, and the sensual
pleasures of dancing with white women in taxi dance halls sent
legislators, reformers, and police forces scurrying to contain
public displays of Filipino virility. But as Espana-Maram argues,
Filipino workers, by flaunting "improper" behavior, established
niches of autonomy where they could defy racist attitudes and shape
an immigrant identity based on youth, ethnicity, and notions of
heterosexual masculinity within the confines of a working
class.
Espa?a-Maram takes this history one step further by examining
the relationships among Filipinos and other Angelenos of color,
including the Chinese, Mexican Americans, and African Americans.
Drawing on oral histories and previously untapped archival records,
Espa?a-Maram provides an innovative and engaging perspective on
Filipino immigrant experiences.
This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the
26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985.
These contributions document the work of many of Glynn's colleagues
students and collaborators, and reflect their continuing respect
for a great scholar.
This innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school
focuses on the academic success of African-American students,
exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the
Black community and investigating the price students pay for
attaining it. Signithia Fordham's richly detailed ethnography
reveals a deeply rooted cultural system that favors egalitarianism
and group cohesion over the individualistic, competitive demands of
academic success and sheds new light on the sources of academic
performance. She also details the ways in which the achievements of
sucessful African-Americans are "blacked out" of the public
imagination and negative images are reflected onto black
adolescents. A self-proclaimed "native" anthropologist, she
chronicles the struggle of African-American students to construct
an identity suitable to themselves, their peers, and their families
within an arena of colliding ideals. This long-overdue contribution
is of crucial importance to educators, policymakers, and
ethnographers.
"Ngecha" is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and
nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan
independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a
village outside Nairobi. From 1968 to 1973 Ngecha was a research
site of the Child Development Research Unit, a team that brought
together Kenyan and non-Kenyan social scientists under the
leadership of John Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting.
The study documents how families adapted to changing
opportunities and conditions as their former colony became a modern
nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as
they became small-scale cash-crop farmers and entrepreneurs.
Mothers modified the culture of their parents to meet the evolving
national economy, and they participated in the shift from an
agrarian to a wage economy in ways that transformed their workloads
and perceptions of isolation and individualism within and between
households, thereby challenging traditional family-based morals and
obligations. Their children, in turn, experienced evolving
educational practices and achievement expectations. The elders
faced new situations as well as new modes of treatment. Completing
this valuable record of a nation in transition are the long-term
reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research
team, and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who
participated in the original study.
George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in
Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work
together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is
responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society.
Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to
individuals through profits made from housing secured in
discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational
opportunities available to children of different races, through
insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the
friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and
present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational
transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of
discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are
encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity
that provides them with structured advantages. In this twentieth
anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and
updated statistics; as well as analyses of the enduring importance
of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti-immigrant mobilizations;
police assaults on Black women, the killings of Trayvon Martin,
Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray; the legacy of Obama and the
emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes;
and the ways in which white fear, white fragility, and white
failure have become drivers of a new ethno-nationalism. As vital as
it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary
edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is an unflinching
but necessary look at white supremacy.
Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity
had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the
Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American
prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological
strata seemed exactly analogous between America and Europe, which
would lead one to believe that North American humanity ought to be
as old as the European variety. This idea set off an eager race for
evidence of the people who might have occupied North America during
the Ice Age-a long, and, as it turned out, bitter and controversial
search. In The Great Paleolithic War, David J. Meltzer tells the
story of a scientific quest that set off one of the longest-running
feuds in the history of American anthropology, one so vicious at
times that anthropologists were deliberately frightened away from
investigating potential sites. Through his book, we come to
understand how and why this controversy developed and stubbornly
persisted for as long as it did; and how, in the process, it
revolutionized American archaeology.
Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of
Modern Human Morphology provides students with a collection of
readings that explore critical concepts in biological anthropology
and human evolution. The text is divided into 10 distinct sections
that feature an introduction, relevant readings, and post-reading
questions. Opening sections explore creationism versus evolution,
the history of evolutionary thought, population genetics and
microevolution, and heritability. Students read about natural
selection in action, primate behavior, evolutionary systematics,
and human evolution and the origins of bipedalism. The final
sections examine Neanderthals, the origins of modern humans, and
what it is to be human. Concise and accessible, Readings in
Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Human
Morphology is an ideal resource for courses in anthropology and
human evolution.
During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was
recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation,
but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural
democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey
Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in a book that promises to
become one of the most important political histories of our time.
"More Equal Than Others" looks back on twenty-five years of what
Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America,
demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics.
Hodgson disputes the notion that the rise of conservatism has
spread affluence and equality to the American people. Quite the
contrary, he writes, the most distinctive feature of American
society in the closing years of the twentieth century was its great
and growing inequality. He argues that the combination of
conservative ideology and corporate power and dominance by mass
media obsessed with lifestyle and celebrity have caused America to
abandon much of what was best in its past. In fact, he writes,
income and wealth inequality have become so extreme that America
now resembles the class-stratified societies of early
twentieth-century Europe.
"More Equal Than Others" addresses a broad range of issues, with
chapters on politics, the new economy, immigration, technology,
women, race, and foreign policy, among others. A fitting sequel to
the author's critically acclaimed "America In Our Time," "More
Equal Than Others" is not only an outstanding synthesis of history,
but a trenchant commentary on the state of the American Dream.
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