ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between communication and cross-cultural adaptation through conducting a membership categorization analysis of interactions among members of an Asian American Chamber of Commerce (AACC). Analysis of audio-and-video-recorded data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork illustrates how immigrant AACC members adapt to US notions of race through adopting the “Asian” racial category yet define “Asian” in creative ways that meet institutional goals. AACC members also resist US essentialist racial ideology through identifying with ethnic categories that help members meet situated institutional goals. Overall, this paper highlights how members routinely switch among racial, ethnic, and professional identity categories when navigating structural constraints of racial ideology during cross-cultural adaptation in institutional contexts.

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“没有亚洲人”：亚裔美国人商业社区中跨文化适应的会员类别分析

摘要本文通过对亚裔美国商会（AACC）成员之间的互动进行成员资格分类分析，探讨了交流与跨文化适应之间的关系。对人种志田野调查期间收集的音频和视频记录的数据进行的分析表明，移民AACC成员如何通过采用“亚洲”种族类别来适应美国种族观念，同时以符合机构目标的创造性方式定义“亚洲”。AACC成员还通过确定有助于成员实现既定机构目标的种族类别来抵制美国本质主义种族意识形态。总体而言，本文重点介绍了会员如何定期在种族，族裔，