Critical Ethnic Studies

Critical Ethnic Studies

A Reader

  • Author: Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective; Elia, Nada; Hernández, David M.; Kim, Jodi; Redmond, Shana L.; Rodriguez, Dylan; See, Sarita Echavez
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822361084
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822374367
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2016
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 568
  • Language: English
Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to promote open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding the field's expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns. Covering a wide range of topics, from multiculturalism, the neoliberal university, and the exploitation of bodies to empire, the militarized security state, and decolonialism, these twenty-five essays call attention to the urgency of articulating a Critical Ethnic Studies for the twenty-first century. 
 
 
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A Sightline
  • I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights
    • One. “As Though It Were Our Own”: Against a Politics of Identification
    • Two. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary
    • Three. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization
    • Four. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State
    • Five. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization
    • Six. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See
  • II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University
    • Seven. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education
    • Eight. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What “We Are All Palestinians” Really Means
    • Nine. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University
    • Ten. “The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety”: On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity
    • Eleven. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing
  • III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital
    • Twelve. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin’ Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery
    • Thirteen. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung’s Creative Modalities of Resignification
    • Fourteen. Indra Sinha’s Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal’s People
    • Fifteen. Cocoa Chandelier’s Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag
  • IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity
    • Sixteen. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention
    • Seventeen. Of “Mates” and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941–1943
    • Eighteen. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, “Illegal” Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life
    • Nineteen. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain
    • Twenty. Empire’s Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above
  • V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures
    • Twenty-One. Decolonization, “Race,” and Remaindered Life under Empire
    • Twenty-Two. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence
    • Twenty-Three. Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn
    • Twenty-Four. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana
    • Twenty-Five. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
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