We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color
and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research …

Historically, anthropology has occupied a central place in the construction and
reconstruction of race as both an intellectual device and a social reality. Critiques of the …

White Identities provides a comprehensive overview of this debate, drawing together the
various strands of recent research into an accessible but challenging introduction. The …

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft
power. Maria Repnikova's analysis introduces the Chinese theorization of the idea of soft …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas
and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the …

At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians
became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the …

How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining
the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why …

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee
Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and …

Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing
Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the …