Immigrant Acts(Updated) On Asian American Cultural Politics by LisaLowe Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1864-4, ISBN: 0-8223-1864-4
"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 distanced from the terrain of national culture.Lowe argues t ..."
The Intimacies of Four Continents(Illustrated) by LisaLowe Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2015 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5875-6, ISBN: 0-8223-5875-1
"In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing ..."
"Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements—challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production.Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, La ..."
Critical Terrains(Reprint) French and British Orientalisms (Paperback) by LisaLowe Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2805-1, ISBN: 1-5017-2805-9
"French and British orientalisms Lisa Lowe. taire dont le ton serait: no comment" (
p. 14) ("About China, an immense object, and for many, an urgent one, I tried to
produce — and this was my truth — a discourse that was neither assertive nor
negative, nor neutral: a commentary whose tone would be no comment"; p. 120).
The afterword states the first narrator's wish for a mode of writing that would
neither praise nor condemn, and thus ..."
Critical Terrains French and British Orientalisms (Hardback) by LisaLowe Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1992 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-2579-0, ISBN: 0-8014-2579-4
Critical Terrains French and British Orientalisms by LisaLowe 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2313-1, ISBN: 1-5017-2313-8
"Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century."
"Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New York: Monthly Review,
1948. Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A
Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and
Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum (1989): 139–67. Crill,
Rosemary, ed. Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West. London: V and A Publishing,
2008. Crill, Rosemary, ed. Textiles from I ..."
""The Politics of Nature and the Black Movement of the Pacific Coast of Colombia."
In Cultures of Politics/ Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social
Movements, ed. Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, forthcoming. Guattari, Felix. "Las radios libres populares." In
De las ondas rojas a las radios libres, ed. Lluis Bassets. Barcelona: Editorial
Gustavo Gili, 198 I. . "Milli ..."
"Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields. Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection between sport and identity formation. Sport pl ..."
"Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid fo ..."
Critical Terrains French and British Orientalisms by LisaLowe 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2312-4, ISBN: 1-5017-2312-X
""We are here to govern India as delegates of Christian and civilized power. We
are here as representatives of Christ and Caesar to maintain this land against
Shiva and Khalifa."8 On the other hand, Sir Andrew H. L. Fraser, a former
lieutenant ..."
"In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing ..."
Immigrant Acts On Asian American Cultural Politics by LisaLowe 272 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7901-0, ISBN: 0-8223-7901-5
"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."
" OutSpoken showcases a variety of takes on gender, sexuality, family, and history. The selections collected in this anthology reflect personal, political, and cultural complexities. Intended for study, auditions, or general interest, this collection includes works by Trey Anthony, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Mariko Tamaki, d’bi young anitafrika, and Jovette Marchessault."
"... Candace Fujikane, Eleanor Jaluague, Eric Reyes, Darlene Rodrigues, Dorothy
Fujita Rony, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Neferti Tadiar ... Yen Le Espiritu, Luis H.
Francia, Jessica Hagedorn, Reynaldo C. Ileto, Luzvimida Francisco, Martin F.
Manalansan IV, ... The question of the privileged object(s) of investigation in the
field of Asian American and ethnic studies has been a ... Some key texts include
Sau-ling Wong, "Denationalization ..."
"My former gmhc and apicha co-workers included Joey Almoradie, Kevin W.
Bratholt, Leo Cairo, John Chin, Dawn Cunningham, Lance Dronkers, Ron
Frederick, Ruben Garcia, Michael Pa- quette, Jack Guza, Ernesto Hinojos, the
late Ramon Hodel, Jennifer Kaplan, Karyn Kaplan, Li Ma, John Manzon-Santos,
Robin Miller, Ana Morais, Jane Po, Ludy Resurreccion, Therese Rodriguez,
Vince Sales, Javid Syed, Bert Wang, and David Whittier, who taught me ..."
"Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. "The Futures of American Studies" considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses o ..."
"Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. "The Futures of American Studies" considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses o ..."