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"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 that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human" is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself."--Provided by publisher.

Liberalism. --- Liberty. --- Slave trade. --- Commerce. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Handel. --- Liberalismus. --- Kolonialismus. --- Sklavenhandel. --- Frihet. --- Slavhandel. --- Europa. --- Afrika. --- Asien. --- Amerika. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- slavery --- liberalism --- nationalism --- social anthropology --- colonialism --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1990-1999 --- World history --- anno 1700-1799 --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Trade --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Economics --- Business --- Merchants --- Transportation --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- History --- Free enterprise. --- Free markets --- Laissez-faire --- Markets, Free --- Private enterprise --- Economic policy --- Libéralisme. --- Liberté. --- Esclaves --- liberalism. --- freedom. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- HISTORY --- Politics and Government. --- Essays. --- Government --- General. --- National. --- Reference. --- World. --- Commerce --- Industries

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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 that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the “foreigner-within.” In Immigrant Acts, she argues that rather than attesting to the absorption of cultural difference into the universality of the national political sphere, the Asian immigrant—at odds with the cultural, racial, and linguistic forms of the nation—displaces the temporality of assimilation. Distance from the American national culture constitutes Asian American culture as an alternative site that produces cultural forms materially and aesthetically in contradiction with the institutions of citizenship and national identity. Rather than a sign of a “failed” integration of Asians into the American cultural sphere, this critique preserves and opens up different possibilities for political practice and coalition across racial and national borders.In this uniquely interdisciplinary study, Lowe examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings of immigration in relation to Asian Americans. Extending the range of Asian American critique, Immigrant Acts will interest readers concerned with race and ethnicity in the United States, American cultures, immigration, and transnationalism.

American literature --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Immigrants in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Intellectual life. --- History --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- American / Asian American --- Asian Americans in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Theory, etc --- Intellectual life --- Political aspects

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Coming from a broad cross-section of academic disciplines and theoretical positions, this collection of essays questions and reworks Marxist critiques of capitalism that center on the West and which posit a uniform model of development. More specifically

Capitalism --- Economic development. --- Women --- Social conditions.

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Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fieldsThrough 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 plays a special role in the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming American identities.This volume incorporates work on Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered, including examinations of Asian American men’s attempts to claim masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the “Orientalism” evident in discussions of mixed martial arts as practiced by Asian American female fighters. This American story illuminates how marginalized communities perform their American-ness through co-ethnic and co-racial sporting spaces.

Asian American athletes --- Asian American athletes. --- Group identity --- Sports --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects --- Athletes, Asian American --- Athletes