Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE 1
5. I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights
6. ONE. “As Though It Were Our Own”: Against a Politics of Identification 17
7. TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary 43
8. THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization 63
9. FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State 92
10. FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization 106
11. SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See 138
12. II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University
13. SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education 159
14. EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What “We Are All Palestinians” Really Means 175
15. NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University 190
16. TEN. “The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety”: On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity 203
17. ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing 215
18. III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital
19. TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin’ Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery 229
20. THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung’s Creative Modalities of Resignification 252
21. FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha’s Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal’s People 269
22. FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier’s Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag 281
23. IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity
24. SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention 301
25. SEVENTEEN. Of “Mates” and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941–1943 326
26. EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, “Illegal” Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life 344
27. NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain 360
28. TWENTY. Empire’s Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above 376
29. V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures
30. TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, “Race,” and Remaindered Life under Empire 393
31. TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence 416
32. TWENTY-THREE. Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn 435
33. TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana 463
34. TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life 477
35. Bibliography 495
36. Contributors 533
37. Index 539