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Critical Ethnic Studies

A Reader

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Building on the possibilities opened up by Ethnic Studies, this volume promotes open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding Critical Ethnic Studies' expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns on topics ranging from multiculturalism and the neoliberal university to the militarized security state.

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The members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective are Nada Elia, Independent Scholar; David M. Hernández, Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College; Jodi Kim, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside; Shana L. Redmond, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California; Dylan Rodríguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside; and Sarita Echavez See, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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"This ambitious new collection from the Critical Ethnic Studies Association successfully stakes out important intellectual and political stances in the field of ethnic studies."

-- N. Barnd Choice

"The ground-breaking aspect of this volume is that it underscores the urgency to train new scholars and thinkers that can help reformulate and rethink complex issues such as racism, ethnicity and hate crimes, all characteristics of the zeitgeist."

-- Natascha Adama Ethnic and Racial Studies

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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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Nada Elia, David M. Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez and Sarita Echavez See

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INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE
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Nada Elia, David M. Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez and Sarita Echavez See

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I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights
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ONE. “As Though It Were Our Own”: Against a Politics of Identification
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Shana L. Redmond

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TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary
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John D. Márquez

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THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization
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João H. Costa Vargas

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FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State
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Lindsey Schneider

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FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization
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Jin Haritaworn

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SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See
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II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University
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SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education
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Long T. Bui

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EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What “We Are All Palestinians” Really Means
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Nada Elia

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NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University
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Tania Das Gupta

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TEN. “The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety”: On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity
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David Lloyd

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ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing
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Dan Berger

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III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital
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TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin’ Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery
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Nirmala Erevelles

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THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung’s Creative Modalities of Resignification
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Bo Luengsuraswat

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FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha’s Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal’s People
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Andrew Uzendoski

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FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier’s Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag
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Stephanie Nohelani Teves

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IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity
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SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention
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David M. Hernández

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SEVENTEEN. Of “Mates” and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941–1943
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Jason Luna Gavilan

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EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, “Illegal” Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life
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Gilberto Rosas

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NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain
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Ronak K. Kapadia

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TWENTY. Empire’s Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above
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Keith P. Feldman

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V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures
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TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, “Race,” and Remaindered Life under Empire
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Neferti X. M. Tadiar

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TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence
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Robert Stam and Ella Shohat

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TWENTY-THREE. Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana
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Laura Pulido

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TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life
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Alexander G. Weheliye

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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE

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

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

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

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

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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