Why the hyphen? Individual and collective memories of Italianness in the United States at the intersection of class and generation

This three-generation oral history study offers insight into why descendants of Italian migrants to the United States still choose hyphenated identities today. The research project shows how the meaning of Italianness shifts among the interviewees depending on class affiliation: among the middle-class offspring the use of the hyphen can be understood mainly as a reaction to the experienced pressure to give in to Anglo conformity. Among the blue-collar, urban progeny, Italianness expresses itself as a combination of an experienced ethnic environment on the one hand and a symbolic ethnicity on the other.     

Demanding an ‘adequate solution:’ the American Legion,the Immigration Act of 1924, and the politics of exclusion

This article analyses the American Legion’s role in developing a discourse of exclusion surrounding the Immigration Act of 1924. The Legion strategically used the political rhetoric of states’ rights and federalism in addition to racist and nativist language to emphasise the need for increased federal restrictions on immigration. The arguments found in the Legion’s resolutions, pamphlets and testimony to Congress place the organisation’s emphasis on the political disruptions caused by Japanese migrants within the context of evolving immigration reform. The Legion’s activism in exclusion contributes to an understanding of the history of states’ rights and federalism tropes in anti-immigrant arguments during the twentieth century.     

Beyond Racism: Response to Embrick,Hughey, Miller,Rosenfeld, and Ross

This essay serves as a response to Embrick (2016), Hughey (2016), Miller (2016), Rosenfeld (2016), and Ross (2016), all of whom reflected on my article “Lethal Policing: Making Sense of American Exceptionalism,” published in the December 2015 issue of this journal.     

美国高校学生事务管理研究综述

美国是当今世界上高等教育最发达的国家之一,其高教领域的杰出成就与其卓有成效的学生事务管理工作密不可分。在对1994－2006年CNKI收录的相关论文进行梳理和分析的基础上,就美国高校学生事务管理的理论和实践研究成果进行了综述。     

她们自己的“百纳被”——互文性理论视域下非裔美国女性文学研究

在互文性理论视域下,分析讨论非裔美国女性作家赫斯顿、沃克、莫里森及内勒的代表作文本之间多维度的互文勾连关系,即从克里斯蒂娃的广义互文角度来探讨小说对非洲及非裔文化的挖掘和指涉,以及从热奈特的狭义互文角度来探析几位作家对颠覆圣经文化的表达技巧。通过讨论小说之间的创作思想内涵之间的观照,论证非裔美国女性作家的文学书写传承性。     

A Brief Talk of Chinese and American Charity Culture

In recent years, ＂charity＂ has become a hot topic in China increasingly. Charity culture is not only the embodiment of modern civilization, but also an important impetus for the development of human civilization and moral consciousness. It has far-reaching effects on charity development, which is important for the construction of a harmonious society.     

Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective

This article demonstrates that American historiography has ignored the concept of Fascism as a category of analysis to help explain and understand the American interwar period. It makes the case that incorporating this concept can help us understand American history in transnational and comparative terms, as part of a larger global history of interwar politics. It is a propaedeutic analysis of existing scholarship – one that does not survey a recent trend in American historiography so much as suggest a new one. Through a textual reading of historical scholarship on American political extremism, and a parallel reading of comparative fascism scholarship from non-American contexts, the article sheds light on the usefulness of a comparative approach. It concludes that Fascism as a category of analysis, when applied to a national-historical context that has long overlooked it (except as a symptom of particularist German-American or Italian-American immigrant identities), will help us recognize that there was a discernibly ‘native’, ‘all American’ fascism in the United States between the wars – one that clearly failed, but was still a real force in American politics and society.     

影响美国公共教育券计划推行的因素探析

美国的公共教育券计划自20世纪60年代开始试行,至今,全美只有个别州和哥伦比亚特区实施了该计划。公共教育券计划缓慢而曲折的发展是多种因素造成的:公共教育券支持者与反对者在其合法性、有效性和可行性方面的激烈论争;既得利益集团在公共教育券政策制定、实施、评估过程中反抗所造成的强大阻力;美国两党制和三权分立的制度;制度层面的改革对教育结构的破坏。     

论美国内战时期自由民局的创建

内战期间，大量逃奴及获得自由的数百万黑人无以为生。起初，是联邦军队、民间团体及慈善组织采取种种措施帮助他们生存。军队及民间力量的不足促使联邦政府承担起解决黑人生活问题的责任，国会对建立自由民局的必要性、合宪性等问题进行了辩论，支持建立者获得微弱优势，最终建立起统一的帮助自由民、难民重建社会生活与生产秩序的联邦机构自由民局。它的创建是美国福利制度发展史上的突破，预示了联邦制下权力布局的改变。     

Leaving legacies: African American men discuss the impact of their fathers on the development of their own paternal attitudes and behavior

In recent years there has been an increase in research examining issues related to fathers. Despite these contributions to the literature, studies including primarily African American samples disproportionately feature fathers who are non-resident, low income, or incarcerated. Thus, little is known about African American men from across the social and economic spectrum. To fill this gap, this qualitative analysis features a diverse sample of African American men discussing their relationships with their fathers and influence of those relationships on their own fathering attitudes and behaviors. Findings revealed that most of the participants modeled their fathers’ behavior. The findings also revealed that participants described their parenting as attempts to leave their children and communities with a legacy of engaged fathering.