TENSIONS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM: RHETORIC, REVERIE, OR REALITY
Book ID/图书代码： 12689014B72266
English Summary/英文概要： Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality.
Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 所谓社会阶级的向上流动是否会有黑暗的一面？在《“美国梦”中的危机》一书中，梅勒妮•布什和罗德里克•布什为我们提出疑问：一个“移民国度”是如何许下承诺，却又在与此同时基于种族、阶层和性别而边缘化了如此众多的人群？两名作者对美国这个国家和帝国的起源和发展进行了考量；同时也对其归属感、民族主义、卓异主义的产生根基以及其所生活的现实世界进行了思考分析。
《“美国梦”中的危机》同时还从资本主义体系的历史背景角度出发，提及了国家和帝国之间的相似度。作者们不禁质疑：美国梦究竟是否只有那些不愿或无法实现其的人们才会去质疑？究竟什么才叫“美好的生活”，而其又如何格外的“美式”？（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 梅勒妮•E•L•布什是艾德飞大学人类与社会学院的一名副教授，著有“Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a "Post-Racial" World”一书，以及“Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness”（第2版）。
罗德里克•D•布什（1945-2013）曾是圣约翰斯大学人文社科学院的一名教授，著有“The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism”以及“the Problem of the Color Line”，并借此赢得美国社会主义协会颁发的保罗•施威兹马克思学者社会图书奖，此外，他还著有“We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century”一书。
Melanie E. L. Bush is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Adelphi University and author of Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a "Post-Racial" World, the second edition of Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness.
Roderick D. Bush (1945-2013) was Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University, and the author of The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line (Temple), which won the Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association, and We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century.
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