Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 569
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective ix

Introduction: A Sightline / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective 1

I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights 17

1. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification / Shana L. Redmond 19

2. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary / John D. Marquez 43

3. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalizaton / João H. Costa Vargas 63

4. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State / Lindsey Schneider 92

5. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization / Jin Haritaworn 106

6. Critical Contradictions: A Conversion among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See / Moderated by Sarita Echavez See 138

II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University 159

1. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education / Long T. Bui 161

2. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means / Nada Elia 175

3. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University / Tania Das Gupta 190

4. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity / David Lloyd 203

5. Subjucated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing / Dan Berger 215

III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital 229

1. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery / Nirmala Erevelles 231

2. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification / Bo Leungsuraswat 252

3. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People / Andrew uzendoski 269

4. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag / Stephanie Nohelani Teves 281

IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity 201

1. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention / David M. Hernández 303

2. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 / Jason Luna Gavilan 326

3. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life / Gilberto Rosas 344

4. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain / Ronak K. Kapadai 360

5. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above / Keith P. Feldman 376

V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures

1. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire / Neferti X. M. Tadiar 395

2. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 416

3. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres / 435

4. Checkered Choices, Political Associations: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La 24. Asociación Nacional México-Americana / Laura Pulido 463

5. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life / Alexander G. Weheliye 477

Bibliography 495

Contributors 535

Index