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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Folded Time and the Presence of Disability -- 1. Unmothering Disability -- 2. Cure by Proxy -- 3. Violence as a Way of Loving -- 4. Uninhabiting Family -- 5. Curing Virginity -- Conclusion: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This essay questions the perspective that distinguishes humans from objects on the grounds of ability and considers the departure from recognizable markers of humanity. Thinking through performances by Marina Abramović and through the 2006 South Korean film I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK, I explore the moments when one becomes a "quasi-object" so that one embodies the characteristics of objects, perceives one's body or body parts as objects, or suspends what are conventionally viewed as uniquely human capacities and values. I suggest that unbecoming human—by embodying objecthood, surrendering agency, and practicing powerlessness—may open up an anti-ableism, antiviolence queer ethics of proximity. An ethical positioning of proximity to humanness through unbecoming human disengages from any kind of ability-based determination of a being's legitimacy and from the appraisal of differences.

This study investigates the relationship between parental involvement and children's educational achievement in the Korean American family. The primary purposes are to examine the extent and characteristics of parental involvement and the consequences of children's educational achievement. Various dimensions of parental involvement are measured as separate variables. Data from a sample of children aged 12 through 14 (n = 209) and their parents (n = 209) are used to test the research hypothesis.***Parental involvement in the Korean American family is characterized by an extremely high level of home based parental involvement and a comparatively much lower level of school based parental involvement. Parents' education level and English proficiency substantially influence the extent of parental involvement and children's educational achievement. Thus, we could conclude that reflecting both traditional cultural norms and the levels of parents' adaptation to their new world, the parental involvement of the Korean American family revealed its own distinctive characteristics and impact on children's educational achievement.

The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism, showing how a white and Western-centric narrative of disability studies enables ableism and racism.

"The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority. Throughout, they demonstrate how the mandate for a single genealogy of the discipline whitewashes disability and continues forms of violence. By cripping disability studies, the contributors allow for divergent histories, the coexistence of anti-ableist and antiracist theorizing, and a radically just and capacious understanding of disability. Contributors. Suzanne Bost, Mel Y. Chen, Sony Coráñez Bolton, Natalia Duong, Lezlie Frye, Magda García, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, Yoo-suk Kim, Kateřina Kolářová, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Stacey Park Milbern, Julie Avril Minich, Tari Young-Jung Na, Therí A. Pickens, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jasbir K. Puar, Sami Schalk, Faith Njahîra Wangarî"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Why "Against Health"? -- Part I : What Is Health, Anyway? -- 2. What Is Health and How Do You Get It? -- 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health" -- 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health -- Part II : Seeing Health through Morality -- 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality -- 6. Fat Panic and the New Morality -- 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) -- Part III : Making Health and Disease -- 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda -- 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder -- 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health -- 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death -- Part IV : Pleasure and Pain after Health -- 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality -- 13 Be Prepared -- 14 In the Name of Pain -- 15 Conclusion: What Next? -- About the Contributors -- Index

On New Shores focuses on immigrant fathers in North America and provides readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach to how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant fathering among ethnic minority families. The chapters focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant fathers