The Unusual Story of the Pocket Veto Case, 1926–1929 by Jonathan Lurie

IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Journal of Interdisciplinary History Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1162/jinh_r_01964
W. G. Ross
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Peril discourse. More than merely revealing xenophobic rhetoric as dehumanizing, this work underscores the material and historical processes of Asian American racial formation as a political project contingent on U.S. nation-building—the consolidation of the U.S. empire through the degradation of Asian bodies at its borders. Within this genealogy of robust intellectual inquiry, Shinozuka reveals how the imaginaries of entomologists, botanists, and other scientists produced the social and political conditions for the Yellow Peril rhetoric, thus implicating scientific knowledge in the creation of racial meaning. Moving through different moments in entomological and botanical history that cast foreign plants and insects as racialized invaders threatening the biotic ecosystem of the United States, Biotic Borders insists that the regulation of plant and insect immigration was integral to the racial exclusion that contributed to building the U.S. empire. Science, as Bahng argues, is a cultural, not an objective, form of knowledge that “participate[s] in the construction of national and international ideas about modernity and futurity.” Shinozuka’s careful reading of immigration policy alongside intellectual exchanges between scientists aptly demonstrates the cultural and political force behind the intertwined formations of race and species as nodes of difference. By bringing these histories together, Biotic Borders is an important intervention into ideas about immigration and the function of race and species in nationbuilding. This book offers urgent contributions to Asian American studies, the history of science, environmental studies, and posthumanism. Its interdisciplinary engagement sheds new light on the histories of race, species, and immigration.
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乔纳森·卢里(Jonathan Lurie)的《口袋兽医案的不同寻常的故事》(The Exception Story of The Pocket Veto Case,1926–1929)
危言耸听。这部作品不仅揭示了仇外言论的非人性,还强调了亚裔美国人种族形成的物质和历史过程,这是一个取决于美国国家建设的政治项目——通过其边境的亚裔机构的退化来巩固美国帝国。在这一强有力的智力探究谱系中,Shinozuka揭示了昆虫学家、植物学家和其他科学家的想象力是如何为黄祸修辞创造社会和政治条件的,从而将科学知识纳入种族意义的创造中。在昆虫学和植物学史上的不同时刻,外国植物和昆虫被视为威胁美国生物生态系统的种族化入侵者,biotic Borders坚持认为,对植物和昆虫移民的监管是促成美国帝国建立的种族排斥的一部分。正如巴赫所说,科学是一种文化而非客观的知识形式,“参与了关于现代性和未来性的国家和国际思想的构建。“Shinozuka对移民政策的仔细解读,以及科学家之间的智力交流,恰当地表明了种族和物种作为差异节点交织在一起背后的文化和政治力量。通过将这些历史结合在一起,生物边界是对移民以及种族和物种在国家建设中的作用的重要干预。这本书为亚裔美国人研究、科学史、环境研究和后人文主义提供了迫切的贡献。它的跨学科参与为种族、物种和移民的历史提供了新的线索。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields-such as economics and demographics. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include: - social history - demographic history - psychohistory - political history - family history - economic history - cultural history - technological history
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