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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Identity: Authenticity,
Book SynopsisHow do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of identity and its social consequences through three conceptual themes: authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility. Drawing on vivid examples from ethnography, current events, and everyday life, he offers an approach to identity that goes beyond the individual and demonstrates how social groups privilege, flag, and shape identities. Offering an insightful overview of the sociological approaches to understanding social identity in a multicultural, globalized world, The Sociology of Identity will be a welcome resource for students and scholars of identity, and anyone interested in the social and cultural character of the self.Trade Review"The combination of different sociological theories of identity, and the singling out of three specific dimensions for further analysis[, ...] provides a broader perspective than what has often been the case in previous theorizing of identity. [...] Brekhus has much to teach us about the dynamics and relevance of identity for present-day political change and struggle."—Sociology "Identity has long been one of the central concepts in the social sciences. In this readable, theoretically-rich, and empirically-sound work, Wayne Brekhus has provided a persuasive account of how identities are linked to authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility. For anyone interested in selves and societies, this impressive book provides an account that reveals and inspires."—Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University "With lucidity and richness, Brekhus casts identity in a refreshing new light. The unique combination of cognitive sociology and symbolic interactionism reveals the paradoxical process of constructing, performing and navigating selfhood while pursuing authenticity. This wonderful book is highly recommended."—Susie Scott, University of Sussex "Brekhus demonstrates an in-depth understanding of identity as he moves readers through various aspects of symbolic interactionism's expansive ethnographic literature. The writing is concise, using clearly defined terms without an overwhelming amount of jargon, making it ideal for students and researchers."—Symbolic InteractionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Sociological Approaches to Identity 2 Beyond the Individual: Collective Identities 3 Performing Authenticity: Negotiating the Symbolic Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion 4 Multidimensionality, Intersectionality, and Power: Identity and Social Inequalities 5 Mobility and Fluidity: The Omni-Contextual Nature of Identity Conclusion References Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Identity: Authenticity,
Book SynopsisHow do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of identity and its social consequences through three conceptual themes: authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility. Drawing on vivid examples from ethnography, current events, and everyday life, he offers an approach to identity that goes beyond the individual and demonstrates how social groups privilege, flag, and shape identities. Offering an insightful overview of the sociological approaches to understanding social identity in a multicultural, globalized world, The Sociology of Identity will be a welcome resource for students and scholars of identity, and anyone interested in the social and cultural character of the self.Trade Review"The combination of different sociological theories of identity, and the singling out of three specific dimensions for further analysis[, ...] provides a broader perspective than what has often been the case in previous theorizing of identity. [...] Brekhus has much to teach us about the dynamics and relevance of identity for present-day political change and struggle."—Sociology "Identity has long been one of the central concepts in the social sciences. In this readable, theoretically-rich, and empirically-sound work, Wayne Brekhus has provided a persuasive account of how identities are linked to authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility. For anyone interested in selves and societies, this impressive book provides an account that reveals and inspires."—Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University "With lucidity and richness, Brekhus casts identity in a refreshing new light. The unique combination of cognitive sociology and symbolic interactionism reveals the paradoxical process of constructing, performing and navigating selfhood while pursuing authenticity. This wonderful book is highly recommended."—Susie Scott, University of Sussex "Brekhus demonstrates an in-depth understanding of identity as he moves readers through various aspects of symbolic interactionism's expansive ethnographic literature. The writing is concise, using clearly defined terms without an overwhelming amount of jargon, making it ideal for students and researchers."—Symbolic InteractionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Sociological Approaches to Identity 2 Beyond the Individual: Collective Identities 3 Performing Authenticity: Negotiating the Symbolic Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion 4 Multidimensionality, Intersectionality, and Power: Identity and Social Inequalities 5 Mobility and Fluidity: The Omni-Contextual Nature of Identity Conclusion References Index
£17.09
University of Minnesota Press The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial
Book SynopsisAn incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little awareness of the systemic factors that make such a distinct form of dehumanization possible. In both the United States and Brazil—two leading nations of the black diaspora—a very necessary acknowledgment of black suffering is nonetheless undercut by denial of the pervasive antiblackness that still exists throughout these societies.In The Denial of Antiblackness, João H. Costa Vargas examines how antiblackness affects society as a whole through analyses of recent protests against police killings of black individuals in both the United States and Brazil, as well as the everyday dynamics of incarceration, residential segregation, and poverty. With multisite ethnography ranging from a juvenile prison in Austin, Texas, to grassroots organizing in Los Angeles and Black social movements in Brazil, Vargas finds the common factors that have perpetuated antiblackness, regardless of context. Ultimately, he asks why the denial of antiblackness persists, whom this narrative serves, and what political realities it makes possible.Trade Review"The Denial of Antiblackness marks nothing less than a landmark moment in the radical trajectories of Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Black radical social thought. This book—this radical project—is an invitation to engage with the very same Black radical experimentation and generosity of which it writes, while constantly punctuating this invitation with a demand for accountability on the part of Black and nonblack peoples to struggle with the specificity and structural immovability and determinacy of anti-Black terror and violence."—Dylan Rodríguez, University of California at Riverside"The Denial of Antiblackness brings a bold new way to approach the scandalous levels of antiblack violence, as well as the denial of the very fact of blackness as structuring dimension of the social process and state-formation in both Brazil and the United States. João H. Costa Vargas builds a brand new analytical bridge between the two countries, so different in many ways yet sharing the same fundamental racial contradictions."—Osmundo Pinho, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da BahiaTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Challenges of Black AutonomyIntroduction: Our Lives Are Our Deaths: Antiblackness and Oblique IdentificationPart I. Austin, U.S.A.: The Gendered Dynamics of Youth Incarceration1. Does Heaven Have a Ghetto?: Growing Up in Prisons2. Stanzas of Oppression and Hope: Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys3. Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures: Narratives from Black and Latina GirlsPart II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State Terror and Apartheid4. Reclaiming Public Space: Rolezinhos as Protest5. The Pacifying Police: Security through BrutalityPart III. The Denial of Antiblackness6. Michael Zinzun: The Fall and Rise of the Black Cyborg7. Black Suffering as Catalyst: Multiracial Blocs in DiasporaConclusion: The Slave against the CyborgAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial
Book SynopsisAn incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little awareness of the systemic factors that make such a distinct form of dehumanization possible. In both the United States and Brazil—two leading nations of the black diaspora—a very necessary acknowledgment of black suffering is nonetheless undercut by denial of the pervasive antiblackness that still exists throughout these societies.In The Denial of Antiblackness, João H. Costa Vargas examines how antiblackness affects society as a whole through analyses of recent protests against police killings of black individuals in both the United States and Brazil, as well as the everyday dynamics of incarceration, residential segregation, and poverty. With multisite ethnography ranging from a juvenile prison in Austin, Texas, to grassroots organizing in Los Angeles and Black social movements in Brazil, Vargas finds the common factors that have perpetuated antiblackness, regardless of context. Ultimately, he asks why the denial of antiblackness persists, whom this narrative serves, and what political realities it makes possible.Trade Review"The Denial of Antiblackness marks nothing less than a landmark moment in the radical trajectories of Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Black radical social thought. This book—this radical project—is an invitation to engage with the very same Black radical experimentation and generosity of which it writes, while constantly punctuating this invitation with a demand for accountability on the part of Black and nonblack peoples to struggle with the specificity and structural immovability and determinacy of anti-Black terror and violence."—Dylan Rodríguez, University of California at Riverside"The Denial of Antiblackness brings a bold new way to approach the scandalous levels of antiblack violence, as well as the denial of the very fact of blackness as structuring dimension of the social process and state-formation in both Brazil and the United States. João H. Costa Vargas builds a brand new analytical bridge between the two countries, so different in many ways yet sharing the same fundamental racial contradictions."—Osmundo Pinho, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da BahiaTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Challenges of Black AutonomyIntroduction: Our Lives Are Our Deaths: Antiblackness and Oblique IdentificationPart I. Austin, U.S.A.: The Gendered Dynamics of Youth Incarceration1. Does Heaven Have a Ghetto?: Growing Up in Prisons2. Stanzas of Oppression and Hope: Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys3. Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures: Narratives from Black and Latina GirlsPart II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State Terror and Apartheid4. Reclaiming Public Space: Rolezinhos as Protest5. The Pacifying Police: Security through BrutalityPart III. The Denial of Antiblackness6. Michael Zinzun: The Fall and Rise of the Black Cyborg7. Black Suffering as Catalyst: Multiracial Blocs in DiasporaConclusion: The Slave against the CyborgAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New
Book SynopsisThe shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while racial subordination is an enduring feature of U.S. political history, it continually changes in response to shifting economic and political conditions, interests, and structures. The authors document the changing politics of race and class in the age of Trump across a broad range of phenomena, showing how new forms of racialization work to alter the economic protections of whiteness while promoting some conservatives of color as models of the neoliberal regime. Through careful analyses of diverse political sites and conflicts—racially charged elections, attacks on public-sector unions, new forms of white precarity, the rise of black and brown political elites, militia uprisings, multiculturalism on the far right—they highlight new, interwoven deployments of race in the ascendant age of inequality. Using the concept of “racial transposition,” the authors demonstrate how racial meanings and signification can be transferred from one group to another to shore up both neoliberalism and racial hierarchy.From the militia movement to the Alt-Right to the mainstream Republican Party, Producers, Parasites, Patriots brings to light the changing role of race in right-wing politics.Trade Review"In exploring the contemporary politics of whiteness, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes offer a powerful analysis of white precarity embedded in an antiracist critique of white supremacy in multicultural times. Producers, Parasites, Patriots is a necessary and welcome work."—Cristina Beltrán, New York University"In the age of neoliberal precarity, the authors argue, traditional protections of “whiteness” no longer prevent government workers from being depicted as parasites, and conservatives of color, along with languages of civil rights and multiculturalism, get resignified as models of conservative patriotism. This is a well-written and detailed examination of the ways racial identity gets transposed."—CHOICE"It offers a clear and unique understanding of how the state of contemporary politics necessitates a re‐thinking about the ideological barriers that we often assume polemically separate the political left and right."—Sociology of Health & Illness"HoSang and Lowndes have opened-up space for dialogue around race and class in the present age. In doing so, they bring to light the limitations of liberal anti-racism."—New Political Science"Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes state in their fascinating new book Producers, Parasites, Patriots that only by providing a more critical understanding of contemporary right-wing politics can we be prepared to resist the growth of far-right movements."—Political Science Quarterly "Producers, Parasites and Patriots offers compelling insight for a general public trying to make sense of the dynamic,complex, and at times contradictory behavior of the American political right."—Journal of African American Studies
£57.60
University of Minnesota Press Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization
Book SynopsisThis vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.Trade Review"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"—Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz"In Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe carefully and incisively models an intersectional approach to abolition grounded in feminist, queer, and crip of color critique. Moving beyond demands for inclusion and critiques of overrepresentation, Ben-Moshe makes a powerful and persuasive case for a disability studies that recognizes state violence as central to its work and the carceral industrial complex as a site for queer coalitions for racial and disability justice. In so doing, she paves the way for thinking not only disability and disability studies differently, but also liberation itself."—Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin"Decarcerating Disability is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling the interlocking systems of incarceration that shape the contemporary political landscape and shorten so many lives. Liat Ben-Moshe shows how the effectiveness of abolitionist work has been limited by the marginalization of disability and anti-sanism analysis and advocacy. She not only exposes how much contemporary abolitionists have to learn from historical struggles for deinstitutionalization, she also demonstrates a more truly intersectional method of abolitionist scholar-activism that we urgently need. This book is both a corrective intervention and a path-breaking tool for developing better strategy toward the world that those who seek liberation are fighting to build."—Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law"Ben-Moshe outlines how people fought for a new paradigm in mental health treatment before. Beginning in the 1960s, widespread deinstitutionalization sparked by disability activists shut down asylums across the country. Many see this movement now as a failure because it led to more people with mental illness being herded into jails and prisons. But Ben-Moshe argues that this was a pivotal step in abolition by grassroots organizing."—Teen Vogue"Examining decarceration and deinstitutionalisation within the same frame is vitally important...the book challenges us to think about the range of carceral facilities that exist."—Race & Class"A groundbreaking connection between disability justice and prison abolition."—Public Books "Decarcerating Disability should be read not only by students and scholars of African-American studies, criminology, critical theory, gender studies, law, or sociology, nor only by policy makers, but by all who are concerned about disability, gender, or racial justice."—American Journal of Sociology "Each chapter of Decarcerating Disability serves as a fantastic example of the knowledges, perspectives, and genealogies that are made possible when disability and madness are the lenses through which a queer of color critique is engaged."—Disability Studies Quarterly"Decarcerating Disability is an impressive text that powerfully argues for robust coalitional politics to challenge the logic of incarceration. Entire syllabi and reading groups can be structured around this text as Ben-Moshe opens up much to consider, especially how to effectively demand carceral-free futures, while also valuing disability. "—Ethnic Studies Review"Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition is abold and challenging critical intervention, which puts critical disability studies, deinstitutionalisation, decarceration, and abolition theory and scholarship into closer conversation with each other. In so doing, the book has pushed these fields forward in new and, interesting ways. The book’s strongest contribution is its attempt to transform, redefine, and reframe what disability studies is and can be about, its appeal to frame and address issues of incarceration and decarceration as disability and carceral abolition issues, and the generative groundwork laid for fostering coalitional, liberatory politics and ideas."—Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology"[A]n important book that offers both a sweeping genealogy of disability and itsentangled history with race and incarceration, and rallying cry for abolitionism."—Journal of Constructivist Psychology"Ben-Moshe offers a detailed history of institutionalization and incarceration primarily in the United States. In putting institutionalization and incarceration in conversation, Ben-Moshe offers a larger consideration around the systems that keep certain individuals enclosed and the implications of deinstitutionalization as a movement versus louder for total prison abolition. A major intervention of Ben-Moshe’s book is the different approaches to and opinions of institutions as opposed to prison systems across the United States."—Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Case for Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization1. The Perfect Storm: Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization2. Abolition in Deinstitutionalization: Normalization and the Myth of Mental Illness 3. Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing4. Why Prisons Are Not “the New Asylums”5. Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and Race-Ability6. Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures7. Institutional and Prison Reform Litigation: From Politicization to the Governable Iron CageEpilogue: Abolition NowAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San
Book SynopsisA compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is remarkably wide ranging. Class Action tells the story of San Francisco’s long struggle over school desegregation in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. San Francisco’s story provides a critical chapter in the history of American school discrimination and the complicated racial politics that emerged. It was among the first large cities outside the South to face court-ordered desegregation following the Brown rulings, and it experienced the same demographic shifts that transformed other cities throughout the urban West. Rand Quinn argues that the district’s student assignment policies—including busing and other desegregative mechanisms—began as a remedy for state discrimination but transformed into a tool intended to create diversity. Drawing on extensive archival research—from court docket files to school district records—Quinn describes how this transformation was facilitated by the rise of school choice, persistent demand for neighborhood schools, evolving social and legal landscapes, and local community advocacy and activism.Class Action is the first book to present a comprehensive political history of post-Brown school desegregation in San Francisco. Quinn illuminates the evolving relationship between jurisprudence and community-based activism and brings a deeper understanding to the multiracial politics of urban education reform. He responds to recent calls by scholars to address the connections between ideas and policy change and ultimately provides a fascinating look at race and educational opportunity, school choice, and neighborhood schools in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education.Trade Review"Class Action offers a rigorous and well-written account of school desegregation in one of America’s most important cities. Crucially, Rand Quinn traces the long trajectory of school desegregation from 1971 to 2005, revealing a nuanced portrait of how courts and multiracial communities fought for and against policy changes. This is an important and much needed book."—Matthew Delmont, author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San
Book SynopsisA compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is remarkably wide ranging. Class Action tells the story of San Francisco’s long struggle over school desegregation in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. San Francisco’s story provides a critical chapter in the history of American school discrimination and the complicated racial politics that emerged. It was among the first large cities outside the South to face court-ordered desegregation following the Brown rulings, and it experienced the same demographic shifts that transformed other cities throughout the urban West. Rand Quinn argues that the district’s student assignment policies—including busing and other desegregative mechanisms—began as a remedy for state discrimination but transformed into a tool intended to create diversity. Drawing on extensive archival research—from court docket files to school district records—Quinn describes how this transformation was facilitated by the rise of school choice, persistent demand for neighborhood schools, evolving social and legal landscapes, and local community advocacy and activism.Class Action is the first book to present a comprehensive political history of post-Brown school desegregation in San Francisco. Quinn illuminates the evolving relationship between jurisprudence and community-based activism and brings a deeper understanding to the multiracial politics of urban education reform. He responds to recent calls by scholars to address the connections between ideas and policy change and ultimately provides a fascinating look at race and educational opportunity, school choice, and neighborhood schools in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education.Trade Review"Class Action offers a rigorous and well-written account of school desegregation in one of America’s most important cities. Crucially, Rand Quinn traces the long trajectory of school desegregation from 1971 to 2005, revealing a nuanced portrait of how courts and multiracial communities fought for and against policy changes. This is an important and much needed book."—Matthew Delmont, author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism
Book SynopsisHow apparently positive representations of Muslims in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population Portrayals of Muslims as the beneficiaries of liberal values have contributed to the racialization of Muslims as a risky population since the September 11 attacks. These discourses, which hold up some Muslims as worthy of tolerance or sympathy, reinforce an unstable good Muslim/bad Muslim binary where any Muslim might be moved from one side to the other. In Tolerance and Risk, Mitra Rastegar explores these discourses as a component of the racialization of Muslims—where Muslims are portrayed as a highly diverse population that nevertheless is seen to contain within it a threat that requires constant vigilance.Tolerance and Risk brings together several case studies to examine the interrelation of representations of Muslims abroad and in the United States. These include human-interest stories and opinion polls of Muslim Americans, media representations of education activist Malala Yousafzai, LGBTQ activist discourses, local New York controversies surrounding Muslim-led public projects, and social media discourses of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tolerance and Risk demonstrates how representations of tolerable or sympathetic Muslims produce them as a population with distinct characteristics, capacities, and risks, and circulate standards by which the trustworthiness or threat of individual Muslims must be assessed.Tolerance and Risk examines the ways that discourses of liberal rights, including feminist and LGBTQ rights discourses, are mobilized to racialize Muslims as uncivilized, even as they garner sympathy and identification with some Muslims. Trade Review"Through a brilliant analysis, Mitra Rastegar illuminates how the same standards that deem some Muslims worthy of tolerance can then be used against them. This is an urgently necessary book that will change our understanding of how inclusion operates in liberal societies."—Evelyn Alsultany, author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Tolerance and Anti-Muslim Racism1. News Stories, Police Profiles, and Opinion Polls: Muslims as a Population of Risk2. From Reading Lolita to Reading Malala: Sympathy and Empowering Muslim Women3. “Iran, Stop Killing Gays”: Queer Identifications and Secular Distinctions4.Defamed and Defended: The Precarity of the “Moderate” Muslim Americans5. “Muslims Worth Saving”: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and HumanitarianismConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism
Book SynopsisHow apparently positive representations of Muslims in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population Portrayals of Muslims as the beneficiaries of liberal values have contributed to the racialization of Muslims as a risky population since the September 11 attacks. These discourses, which hold up some Muslims as worthy of tolerance or sympathy, reinforce an unstable good Muslim/bad Muslim binary where any Muslim might be moved from one side to the other. In Tolerance and Risk, Mitra Rastegar explores these discourses as a component of the racialization of Muslims—where Muslims are portrayed as a highly diverse population that nevertheless is seen to contain within it a threat that requires constant vigilance.Tolerance and Risk brings together several case studies to examine the interrelation of representations of Muslims abroad and in the United States. These include human-interest stories and opinion polls of Muslim Americans, media representations of education activist Malala Yousafzai, LGBTQ activist discourses, local New York controversies surrounding Muslim-led public projects, and social media discourses of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tolerance and Risk demonstrates how representations of tolerable or sympathetic Muslims produce them as a population with distinct characteristics, capacities, and risks, and circulate standards by which the trustworthiness or threat of individual Muslims must be assessed.Tolerance and Risk examines the ways that discourses of liberal rights, including feminist and LGBTQ rights discourses, are mobilized to racialize Muslims as uncivilized, even as they garner sympathy and identification with some Muslims. Trade Review"Through a brilliant analysis, Mitra Rastegar illuminates how the same standards that deem some Muslims worthy of tolerance can then be used against them. This is an urgently necessary book that will change our understanding of how inclusion operates in liberal societies."—Evelyn Alsultany, author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Tolerance and Anti-Muslim Racism1. News Stories, Police Profiles, and Opinion Polls: Muslims as a Population of Risk2. From Reading Lolita to Reading Malala: Sympathy and Empowering Muslim Women3. “Iran, Stop Killing Gays”: Queer Identifications and Secular Distinctions4.Defamed and Defended: The Precarity of the “Moderate” Muslim Americans5. “Muslims Worth Saving”: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and HumanitarianismConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£20.69
University of Minnesota Press An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating—or, at least, no food—preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive.Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation’s founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture—from Thomas Jefferson’s emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell’s Domestic Cookbook, the first African American–authored culinary text.The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.Trade Review"In An Archive of Taste, Lauren F. Klein’s old-fashioned archival work and new-era computational skills grant access to subterranean literary narratives, reanimating matters hard to locate, much less taste or see. Klein’s welcome meditations on absent chefs and occluded stories bring new insights to early American literature."—Rafia Zafar, author of Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning"An Archive of Taste is a gorgeously written account of the relation between eating, the archive, and the histories of racial exclusion that shape them both. Lauren F. Klein offers a new frame for understanding the eighteenth-century category of taste, as well as a sharp exploration of the affordances and limits of digital humanities methodologies’ efforts to redress the imbrication of race and the archive."—Monique Allewaert, author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics "Klein’s probing, careful, self-reflective analysis becomes a model for us as readers as well, and enables us to engage in a speculative reading of a book that, no doubt, will be much-cited because it offers an inspiration and paradigm for future work."—American Literary History"Across all five chapters, Klein discerns an abundant archive of taste, even as her capacious analysis confronts that archive’s unique risks of perishability."—Early American Literature"An Archive of Taste makes an important intervention into the fields of nineteenth-century literary studies and food studies through thoughtful citational and archival practices. Importantly, it also bridges established and emergent conversations on the challenges of archival recover, typically written in analog, with digital research."—CriticismTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: No Eating in the Archive1. Taste: Eating and Aesthetics in the Early Republic2. Appetite: Eating, Embodiment, and the Tasteful Subject3. Satisfaction: Aesthetics, Speculation, and the Theory of Cookbooks4. Imagination: Food, Fiction, and the Limits of Taste5. Absence: Slavery and Silence in the Archive of EatingEpilogue: Two Portraits of TasteNotesBibliographyIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the
Book SynopsisHow were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes “queered” indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they sought to impose, they did so by delimiting Zulu polygamy; restricting alcohol access, clothing, and even friendship; and assigning only Europeans to government schools. Using queer and critical indigenous theory, this book critically assesses Natal (where settlers were to remain a minority) in the context of the global settler colonial project in the nineteenth century to yield a new and engaging synthesis. Tallie explores the settler colonial history of Natal’s white settlers and how they sought to establish laws and rules for both whites and Africans based on European mores of sexuality and gender. At the same time, colonial archives reveal that many African and Indian people challenged such civilizational claims. Ultimately Tallie argues that the violent collisions between Africans, Indians, and Europeans in Natal shaped the conceptions of race and gender that bolstered each group’s claim to authority. Trade Review"Brilliant, generous, and generative, Queering Colonial Natal seamlessly demonstrates why scholars of nineteenth-century South African history should read contemporary North American queer and indigenous history and vice versa. T.J. Tallie shows how and why South Africa should be in discussions of settler colonialism as well as how and why a global queer studies needs to pay attention to the history of a place like Natal."—Neville Hoad, author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization"Sophisticated and brilliant. Queering Colonial Natal offers much needed interventions to ongoing conversations in settler colonial studies, queer studies, and Indigenous studies by expanding the geographies, political contexts, and theoretical stakes for historical analyses of white settlement and Indigenous resistances. In foregrounding case studies that expose the normative constraints white settlers imposed on Zulu as the exclusionary standards for civilized belonging, T.J. Tallie advances how critical Indigenous theory understands the colonial cacophonies of race, gender, and sexuality."—Jodi A. Byrd, author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism "All in all, this is a wonderful and important book. It helps the audience understand and redefine contemporary heterosexual normativity beyond colonial Africa and links settler queering of indigenous Africans in Natal with Africa’s anti-gay rhetoric today (Tallie 2019, 188-189). Tallie’s depiction of the heteronormativity and global nature of settler colonization is truly valuable to anthropology, European Studies, and many other humanities and social science disciplines. Anyone who is interested in race in post-colonial societies or want to better understand today’s issue with race should read this book."—EuropeNow "Queering Colonial Natal masterfully details the kinds of perpetual settler labor and vigilance required to respond to the indigenous African majority and the Indian migrant populations who were continually manipulating and shaping the settler order from the margins."—GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies "Tallie’s book contributes to an in-depth understanding of the machinations of settler control as well as the deep fears and desires of the settler state."—Gender & History "Throughout the book, Tallie’s style is clear and elegant. When each chapter ended, I found myself wanting more of his commentary and analysis of the intricate race and gender dynamics that permeated nearly every part of life in Natal."—Ethnic Studies Review "This book is genuinely invaluable to diverse fields such as history, African queer studies, anthropology, and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences."—Journal of African History
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University of Minnesota Press Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the
Book SynopsisHow were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes “queered” indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they sought to impose, they did so by delimiting Zulu polygamy; restricting alcohol access, clothing, and even friendship; and assigning only Europeans to government schools. Using queer and critical indigenous theory, this book critically assesses Natal (where settlers were to remain a minority) in the context of the global settler colonial project in the nineteenth century to yield a new and engaging synthesis. Tallie explores the settler colonial history of Natal’s white settlers and how they sought to establish laws and rules for both whites and Africans based on European mores of sexuality and gender. At the same time, colonial archives reveal that many African and Indian people challenged such civilizational claims. Ultimately Tallie argues that the violent collisions between Africans, Indians, and Europeans in Natal shaped the conceptions of race and gender that bolstered each group’s claim to authority. Trade Review"Brilliant, generous, and generative, Queering Colonial Natal seamlessly demonstrates why scholars of nineteenth-century South African history should read contemporary North American queer and indigenous history and vice versa. T.J. Tallie shows how and why South Africa should be in discussions of settler colonialism as well as how and why a global queer studies needs to pay attention to the history of a place like Natal."—Neville Hoad, author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization"Sophisticated and brilliant. Queering Colonial Natal offers much needed interventions to ongoing conversations in settler colonial studies, queer studies, and Indigenous studies by expanding the geographies, political contexts, and theoretical stakes for historical analyses of white settlement and Indigenous resistances. In foregrounding case studies that expose the normative constraints white settlers imposed on Zulu as the exclusionary standards for civilized belonging, T.J. Tallie advances how critical Indigenous theory understands the colonial cacophonies of race, gender, and sexuality."—Jodi A. Byrd, author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism "All in all, this is a wonderful and important book. It helps the audience understand and redefine contemporary heterosexual normativity beyond colonial Africa and links settler queering of indigenous Africans in Natal with Africa’s anti-gay rhetoric today (Tallie 2019, 188-189). Tallie’s depiction of the heteronormativity and global nature of settler colonization is truly valuable to anthropology, European Studies, and many other humanities and social science disciplines. Anyone who is interested in race in post-colonial societies or want to better understand today’s issue with race should read this book."—EuropeNow "Queering Colonial Natal masterfully details the kinds of perpetual settler labor and vigilance required to respond to the indigenous African majority and the Indian migrant populations who were continually manipulating and shaping the settler order from the margins."—GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies "Tallie’s book contributes to an in-depth understanding of the machinations of settler control as well as the deep fears and desires of the settler state."—Gender & History "Throughout the book, Tallie’s style is clear and elegant. When each chapter ended, I found myself wanting more of his commentary and analysis of the intricate race and gender dynamics that permeated nearly every part of life in Natal."—Ethnic Studies Review "This book is genuinely invaluable to diverse fields such as history, African queer studies, anthropology, and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences."—Journal of African History
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender,
Book SynopsisAn inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence Feminist phenomenologists have long understood a woman’s life as inhibited, confined, and constrained by sexual violence. In this important inquiry, author Megan Burke both builds and expands on this legacy by examining the production of normative womanhood through racist tropes and colonial domination. Ultimately, Burke charts a new feminist phenomenology based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence. By focusing on time instead of space, When Time Warps places sexualized racism at the center of the way “woman” is lived. Burke transports questions of time and gender outside the realm of the historical, making provocative new insights into how gendered individuals live time, and how their temporal existence is changed through particular experiences.Providing a potent reexamination of the theory of Simone de Beauvoir—while also bringing to the fore important women of color theorists and engaging in the temporal aspects of #MeToo—When Time Warps makes a necessary, lasting contribution to our understanding of gender, race, and sexual violence.Trade Review"Megan Burke’s strikingly original and compelling analysis lays bare the complex ways that temporality, the threat of sexual violence, and white supremacy work in concert to shape feminine subjectivity. This is critical phenomenology at its best: intersectional, unflinching, revelatory."—Ann Cahill, Elon University"Megan Burke diagnoses the ‘sexualized racism’ through which white womanhood is consolidated and reads normative femininity as the product of violence that is experienced physically, spectrally, and existentially. Carefully training our attention on temporality, ‘chrononormativity,’ and the lived experience of gendered and racialized embodiment, When Time Warps is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature in critical phenomenology."—Gayle Salamon, author of The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia "Burke... sets forth a new direction for feminist phenomenology by focusing on the sexualized racism, temporality, and chrononormativity of sexual violence."—CHOICE "When Time Warps reveals how past rape myths haunt and animate our private and public safety protocols, offering a sobering account of how our mundane habits of gender contribute to American gun culture and undermine our freedom." —Radical Philosophy ReviewTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. “You Rape Our Women”: Rethinking Gender, Race, and RapePrologue1. Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality and Feminine ExistenceI. The Past2. Sexualized Racism and the Politics of Time3. Beware of Strangers! White Rape Myths and Lived GenderII. The Present4. Anonymity and the Temporality of Normative Gender5. Specters of ViolenceIII. The Future6. Feminist Politics and the Difference of TimeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain
Book SynopsisHow being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society Being nice is difficult to critique. Niceness is almost always portrayed and felt as a positive quality. In schools, nice teachers are popular among students, parents, and administrators. And yet Niceness, as a distinct set of practices and discourses, is not actually good for individuals, institutions, or communities because of the way it maintains and reinforces educational inequity. In The Price of Nice, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores Niceness in educational spaces from elementary schools through higher education to highlight how this seemingly benign quality reinforces structural inequalities. Grounded in data, personal narrative, and theory, the chapters show that Niceness, as a raced, gendered, and classed set of behaviors, functions both as a shield to save educators from having to do the hard work of dismantling inequity and as a disciplining agent for those who attempt or even consider disrupting structures and ideologies of dominance. Contributors: Sarah Abuwandi, Arizona State U; Colin Ben, U of Utah; Nicholas Bustamante, Arizona State U; Aidan/Amanda J. Charles, Northern Arizona U; Jeremiah Chin, Arizona State U; Sally Campbell Galman, U of Massachusetts; Frederick Gooding Jr., Texas Christian U; Deirdre Judge, Tufts U; Katie A. Lazdowski; Román Liera, U of Southern California; Sylvia Mac, U of La Verne; Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux, California Institute of Technology; Giselle Martinez Negrette, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Amber Poleviyuma, Arizona State U; Alexus Richmond, Arizona State U; Frances J. Riemer, Northern Arizona U; Jessica Sierk, St. Lawrence U; Bailey B. Smolarek, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Jessica Solyom, Arizona State U; Megan Tom, Arizona State U; Sabina Vaught, U of Oklahoma; Cynthia Diana Villarreal, U of Southern California; Kristine T. Weatherston, Temple U; Joseph C. Wegwert, Northern Arizona U; Marguerite Anne Fillion Wilson, Binghamton U; Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong, Trinity College; Denise Gray Yull, Binghamton U.Trade Review"Niceness compels educators to focus on the dream, the possibility, and the effort of each individual student. Niceness deters educators from grappling with the red flags that consistently emerge in achievement, behavioral, and other data. Niceness, in other words, both enables avoidance and shields educators from doing the hard work of confronting inequity."—from the Introduction
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University of Minnesota Press Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic
Book SynopsisObservations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in printThursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an exploration of the lives of African American domestic workers in cities throughout the United States during the mid-twentieth century. With dry wit and honesty, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor relates the testimonies of maids, cooks, child care workers, and others as they discuss their relationships with their employers and their experiences on the job. She connects this work with popular culture, presenting Aunt Jemima, Mammies, Uncle Ben, and other charged figures through the eyes of domestic workers as opposed to their employers, and remembers her own family history (her mother and grandmother were domestic workers after migrating to Philadelphia from South Carolina). Interspersed with musings and interviews are historical references, quotations, and personal anecdotes that make this account all the more intimate, heartbreaking, and relevant. Trade Review"I was fortunate to read Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off when it was first published and to know its author, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, well. The book impressed me mightily then. Now, almost half a century later, it remains an amazing work. Humorous and heartbreaking in equal measure, this is Smart-Grosvenor at her tale-telling best, and her voice resonates as though the reader is sitting down with her. It is also an eye-opener, combining history, personal recounting, poetry, and more. After reading it, you’ll never think about domestic work the same way again."—Jessica B. Harris, author of My Soul Looks Black: A Memoir"Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an unforgettable volume that chronicles the experiences of black women domestic workers ‘in service’ to white employers. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor’s masterful storytelling weaves interviews, poetry, history, news reports, bits of memoir, and humor together with critical observations about the nature of everyday racism."—Melissa Cooper, author of Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination"Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor was the ultimate storyteller."—Premilla Nadasen, from the Foreword"By turns informative, witty, enraging, and heartbreaking, storyteller Smart-Grosvenor’s Domestic Rap tells it like it is for domestic workers of color. “Is,” is the operative word. Originally written in 1972, reissued by the UMN Press, the book, alas, cannot be taken as a quaint history of a bygone past." —LavendarTable of ContentsContentsForewordPremilla NadasenI. “All in a day’s work . . .”II. The Domestics RapIII. Mammy, Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben, the Gold Dust twins and the rest of the familyIV. “I just growed”V. “House niggers aint shit”VI. “Freedom is better than slavery and i know cause i done see both sides”VII. Massas and lawn MoorsVIII. “Nobody knows the master better than the servant”IX. The Servants Done Riz!Bibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the
Book SynopsisThe first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has arisen in major cities across the United States since 2011. Drawing on an interpretive qualitative study, it examines how the concept behind CVEaimed at combating homegrown terrorism by engaging Muslim community members, teachers, and religious leaders in monitoring and reporting on young peoplehas been operationalized through the everyday work of CVE actors, from high-level national security workers to local community members, with significant penalties for the communities themselves.Nicole Nguyen argues that studying CVE provides insight into how the drive to bring liberal reforms to contemporary security regimes through “community-driven” and “ideologically ecumenical” programming has in fact further institutionalized anti-Muslim racism in the United States. She forcefully contends that the U.S. security state has designed CVE to legitimize and shore up support for the very institutions that historically have criminalized, demonized, and dehumanized communities of color, while appearing to learn from and attenuate past practices of coercive policing, racial profiling, and political exclusion. By undertaking this analysis, Suspect Communities offers a vital window into the inner workings of the U.S. security state and the devastating impact of CVE on local communities. Trade Review"Suspect Communities is a detailed account of ‘countering violent extremism' policies within the United States, bringing together the current state of play and existing research in a well-rounded analysis. It will be useful for scholars and activists alike."—Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror"Nicole Nguyen’s innovative research reveals important nuances and context around the white supremacist racism embedded within so-called counterterrorism policy. She provides powerful critiques of ‘countering violent extremism’ programs, their precursors from the ‘War on Terror,’ and their successors in the ‘Muslim Ban’ era. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in counterterrorism policy."—Erik Love, author of Islamophobia and Racism in America
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University of Minnesota Press Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the
Book SynopsisThe first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has arisen in major cities across the United States since 2011. Drawing on an interpretive qualitative study, it examines how the concept behind CVEaimed at combating homegrown terrorism by engaging Muslim community members, teachers, and religious leaders in monitoring and reporting on young peoplehas been operationalized through the everyday work of CVE actors, from high-level national security workers to local community members, with significant penalties for the communities themselves.Nicole Nguyen argues that studying CVE provides insight into how the drive to bring liberal reforms to contemporary security regimes through “community-driven” and “ideologically ecumenical” programming has in fact further institutionalized anti-Muslim racism in the United States. She forcefully contends that the U.S. security state has designed CVE to legitimize and shore up support for the very institutions that historically have criminalized, demonized, and dehumanized communities of color, while appearing to learn from and attenuate past practices of coercive policing, racial profiling, and political exclusion. By undertaking this analysis, Suspect Communities offers a vital window into the inner workings of the U.S. security state and the devastating impact of CVE on local communities. Trade Review"Suspect Communities is a detailed account of ‘countering violent extremism' policies within the United States, bringing together the current state of play and existing research in a well-rounded analysis. It will be useful for scholars and activists alike."—Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror"Nicole Nguyen’s innovative research reveals important nuances and context around the white supremacist racism embedded within so-called counterterrorism policy. She provides powerful critiques of ‘countering violent extremism’ programs, their precursors from the ‘War on Terror,’ and their successors in the ‘Muslim Ban’ era. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in counterterrorism policy."—Erik Love, author of Islamophobia and Racism in America
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University of Minnesota Press Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the
Book SynopsisA major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality At the heart of Archiving Medical Violence is an interrogation of the notions of national and scientific progress, marking an advance in scholarship that shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. It reads the medical archive through a lens that centers how it is produced, remembered, and contested within cultural production and critical memory. In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Christopher Perreira argues that it is in the contradictions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that we find how medical violence is narrated as a public good. He presents case studies from across a range of locations—Hawai‘i, California, Louisiana, Guatemala—and historical periods from the nineteenth century on. Examining national and scientific conceptions of progress through the lens of medicine and public health, he places official archives in dialogue with visual and literary works, patient writing, and more. Archiving Medical Violence explores the contested public terrains for narrating value and vulnerabilities, bodies and geographical locations. Ultimately, Perreira reveals for us a medical imaginary built on racialized criminality driving contemporary politics of citizenship, memory, and identity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "In this deeply researched and sweeping examination of medical violence across time, space, and scale, Christopher Perreira takes us on a journey that unsettles progress narratives about medicine and asks us to reckon with the everyday forms of harm embedded in a profession purportedly dedicated to healing. Ultimately, Archiving Medical Violence forces us to remember all those devalued as prisoners and revalued as patients and to reimagine whose stories and lives matter for anticarceral futures animated by justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want "Examining the ways in which human bodies are rendered subject to biomedicine’s epistemological and material violence, Christopher Perreira highlights the discursive technology of the ‘prisoner-patient,’ a figure which bears the histories of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Contemporary biomedicine would do well to engage Archiving Medical Violence to think through its reliance on the same racial–carceral logics that places like prisons and segregated schools rely on, which in turn might provide new public policies to address the deep health care inequalities that are the long-term effects of the violences that Perreira’s book reveals."—James Kyung-Jin Lee, director, Center for Medical Humanities, University of California, Irvine Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Archiving Medical Consent 1. Medical Violence, Archival Fictions 2. Memory, Memoir, and the Carville Leprosarium 3. Imagining Medical Archives at Olive View Epilogue: Futures of Medical Violence Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the
Book SynopsisA major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality At the heart of Archiving Medical Violence is an interrogation of the notions of national and scientific progress, marking an advance in scholarship that shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. It reads the medical archive through a lens that centers how it is produced, remembered, and contested within cultural production and critical memory. In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Christopher Perreira argues that it is in the contradictions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that we find how medical violence is narrated as a public good. He presents case studies from across a range of locations—Hawai‘i, California, Louisiana, Guatemala—and historical periods from the nineteenth century on. Examining national and scientific conceptions of progress through the lens of medicine and public health, he places official archives in dialogue with visual and literary works, patient writing, and more. Archiving Medical Violence explores the contested public terrains for narrating value and vulnerabilities, bodies and geographical locations. Ultimately, Perreira reveals for us a medical imaginary built on racialized criminality driving contemporary politics of citizenship, memory, and identity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "In this deeply researched and sweeping examination of medical violence across time, space, and scale, Christopher Perreira takes us on a journey that unsettles progress narratives about medicine and asks us to reckon with the everyday forms of harm embedded in a profession purportedly dedicated to healing. Ultimately, Archiving Medical Violence forces us to remember all those devalued as prisoners and revalued as patients and to reimagine whose stories and lives matter for anticarceral futures animated by justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want "Examining the ways in which human bodies are rendered subject to biomedicine’s epistemological and material violence, Christopher Perreira highlights the discursive technology of the ‘prisoner-patient,’ a figure which bears the histories of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Contemporary biomedicine would do well to engage Archiving Medical Violence to think through its reliance on the same racial–carceral logics that places like prisons and segregated schools rely on, which in turn might provide new public policies to address the deep health care inequalities that are the long-term effects of the violences that Perreira’s book reveals."—James Kyung-Jin Lee, director, Center for Medical Humanities, University of California, Irvine Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Archiving Medical Consent 1. Medical Violence, Archival Fictions 2. Memory, Memoir, and the Carville Leprosarium 3. Imagining Medical Archives at Olive View Epilogue: Futures of Medical Violence Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the
Book SynopsisLocates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside nineteenth-century accounts of intellectual labor, twentieth-century sociometric experiments, and a range of literary and visual works, The Digitally Disposed locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism.Franklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital’s apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into productive circuits represents an “informatics of value.” On the one hand, understanding value as an informatic relation helps to explain why capital was able to graft so seamlessly with digitality at a moment in which it required more granular and distributed control over labor—the moment that is often glossed as the age of logistics. On the other hand, because the informatics of value sort populations into positions of higher and lower capacity, value, and status, understanding their relationship to digitality requires that we see the digital as racialized and gendered in pervasive ways.Ultimately, The Digitally Disposed questions the universalizing assumptions that are maintained, remade, and intensified by today’s dominant digital technologies. Vital and far-reaching, The Digitally Disposed reshapes such fundamental concepts as cybernetics, informatics, and digitality.Trade Review"Drawing beautifully on Black, Indigenous, postcolonial, and anti-racist feminist cultural theory, Seb Franklin offers a bold and rigorous critique of the social and epistemological processes of dispossession and abjection undergirding the informatics of value. This is a significant and powerful intervention, demonstrating the intimate intertwining of digitality and value—two linked modes of abstraction that shape social forms of free, self-possessed personhood only through the enactment of racialized and gendered forms of disposal. Through brilliant readings of the works of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Samuel Delany, Sondra Perry, and Charles Babbage and extensive original archival research in the history of cybernetics, Franklin carefully tracks and restores what both information theory and dominant digital culture, in their fantasies of pure transmission and frictionless connection, depend on yet disavow: that is, the historical and present material violence of slavery, dispossession, unwaged reproduction, and superfluous populations at the heart of racial capitalism. An indispensable work, a model of critically engaged, synthetic scholarship, and an urgent reminder that ‘other ways of being free’ persist in forging connectivity beyond the informatics of value."—Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University"Why has digital culture perpetuated new forms of racial and gender inequality despite early hopes that it would make users more equal? Seb Franklin’s lucid readings of information theory and its affinities with the history of slavery and dispossession show the reader how informatics emerges historically through racial-capitalist dynamics. This book is a major contribution to the study of race, gender, and capacity as the foundation upon which the digital stands. Elegant, important, and compelling."—Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan"There's a brilliant moment—one of many—in Seb Franklin's new book, that turns the cyberlibertarian term 'digital native' inside out. . . . The Digitally Disposed's close readings, at once minute and expansive, demonstrate the deep and insidious connections between cybernetics, racial capitalism, and digital culture."—Media History"The Digitally Disposed establishes itself as critical reading and inspiration for the digital present, highlighting the continued need for anti-racist and anti-capitalist scholarship capable of rethinking the forms of knowledge and relation that connect our world."—Radical Philosophy"Through discriminating, situated readings, Franklin teases out how a logic of 'digitality' and 'disposal' takes shape at the sidelines of science and capitalism... These readings resonate with a larger strength of the book, Franklin’s knack for identifying overlooked fragments from a scientific career... [and] elicits from these works clues of still largely neglected economic and racial histories shaping digital infrastructures today."—Critical InquiryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Forms of DisposalPart I. The Informatics of Value1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects3. The Informatics of Dispossession4. Differentiation as Regulation5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s NeveryónaPart II. Media Histories of Disposal6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s Typhoon coming on10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”Coda: The Human SurgeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then
Book SynopsisExposes and explores the prevalence of racist restaurant branding in the United States Aunt Jemima is the face of pancake mix. Uncle Ben sells rice. Chef Rastus shills for Cream of Wheat. Stereotyped Black faces and bodies have long promoted retail food products that are household names. Much less visible to the public are the numerous restaurants that deploy unapologetically racist logos, themes, and architecture. These marketing concepts, which center nostalgia for a racist past and commemoration of our racist present, reveal the deeply entrenched American investment in anti-blackness. Drawing on wide-ranging sources from the late 1800s to the present, Burgers in Blackface gives a powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding.Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the leadTrade Review"This book succeeds in showing how certain racist restaurants were founded to capitalize on the degradation of other human beings through the use of pernicious stereotypes. The real value in this book is its ability to open up questions of racism at the heart of American society and food culture, all to the detriment of the African American experience."—Food, Culture & Society
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University of Minnesota Press Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and
Book SynopsisExplores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for belonging and justice on the wish for inclusion within it. In Ambivalent Childhoods, Jacob Breslow examines contemporary U.S. social justice movements (including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and antideportation movements) to discover and reveal how childhood operates within and against them.Ambivalent Childhoods brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants. Through an engagement with“the psychic life of the child” that combines theoretical discussions of childhood, blackness, transfeminism, and deportability with critical readings of films, narrative, images, and social justice movements, Breslow demonstrates how childhood requires sustained attention as a complex and ambivalent site for contesting the workings of power, not only for the young. Ambivalent Childhoods is a forward-thinking and intersectional analysis of how childhood affects activism, national belonging, and the violence directed against queer, trans, and racialized people. Trade Review "This is a landmark achievement. Rigorous and lyrical, urgently political and achingly personal, Ambivalent Childhoods braids together scholarly approaches to childhood that center Blackness, transgender, queer sexuality, and migration in order to show how each twist through ambivalent, fraught, and necessary claims to the protections of childhood innocence."—Rebekah Sheldon, author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe "A highly engaging, timely, and forward-thinking interdisciplinary and intersectional exploration of how childhood shapes activism, national belonging, and the violence transacted against queer, trans, and racialized people. Jacob Breslow successfully weaves these differing fields and movements together to show us something vital but seemingly unnoticed about the role of the psychic life of the child in American fantasies about the political and citizenship."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Both deeply informative and good to think with."—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly "[Breslow] demonstrates one way to occupy the ambivalence of childhood, attending to its harmful effects while valuing its psychic power to sustain us. Ambivalent Childhoods invites us to engage with that ambivalence and the speculative futures it makes possible."—American Literary History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Wish for Childhood1. Disavowing Black Childhood: Trayvon Martin, Adolescent Citizenship, and Anti-Blackness2. Transphobia as Projection: Trans Childhoods and the Psychic Brutality of Gender3. Desiring the Child: Queerness, Motherhood, and the Analyst4. Undocumented Dream-Work: Intergenerational Migrant Aesthetics and the Parricidal Violence of the BorderAfterword: Ambivalence and Loss AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2
Book SynopsisA bold new indictment of the racialization of science Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. He considers African American reticence about participation in biomedical research and examines race and health disparities in light of advances in genomic sequencing technology. Doucet-Battle concludes by emphasizing that genomic research into sub-Saharan ancestry in fact underlines the importance of analyzing gender before attempting to understand the notion of race. No disease reveals this more than Type 2 diabetes.Sweetness in the Blood challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer.Trade Review"James Doucet-Battle has given us a brilliant book that uncovers the networks that support the pharmacapitalism of Type 2 diabetes. In this important study, we see the impact of economizing risk through biomarketing. Sweetness in the Blood is a must-read because it underscores the sacrificial labor of Black people as they become the targets of risk assessments for Type 2 diabetes and role that the technology plays in constructing ‘racial risk.’"—Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"Sweetness in the Blood is an indictment, not only of the global sugar industry, but of medical and biotech industries that insist on using biological race as a lens to explain and predict health disparities. Traversing breathtaking terrain, from sugar plantations to pharmaceutical board rooms, this is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how social inequity gets under the skin and for all those committed to health justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology"Sweetness in the Blood adds nuance to our understanding of race and chronic disease prevention management."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle offers a sweeping indictment of ways in which racial essentialism infiltrates the science and industry surrounding modern diabetes."—Social Forces"In this important contribution to deconstructing the intersections of race, capital, and disease, Doucet-Battle employs an ethnographic approach to explore the racialization of a disease, showing how the combined enterprises of pharma and medicine have constructed being African American as a risk. "—CHOICE"Doucet-Battle successfully presses his readers to question a handful of taken-for-granted concepts (i.e., race, risk, and diabetes). In that respect, Sweetness in the Blood is a wonderful example of the sociological craft. "—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Sugar’s Racial Project: From Slavery to Diabetes1. The At-Risk Ethnographer of Sweetness2. Sweet Blood: Inventing the Prediabetic3. Algorithms of Risk and Race: Recruiting Black Risk and Marketing Black Bodies4. A Dark Past in Present Light: The Black Church, Medicine, and Trust5. The Ascension of the Black Matriarch: The Search for Metabolic AfricaConclusion. The Racialized Pancreas: Toward Biosocial JusticeAcknowledgmentsA Subversive GlossaryNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2
Book SynopsisA bold new indictment of the racialization of science Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. He considers African American reticence about participation in biomedical research and examines race and health disparities in light of advances in genomic sequencing technology. Doucet-Battle concludes by emphasizing that genomic research into sub-Saharan ancestry in fact underlines the importance of analyzing gender before attempting to understand the notion of race. No disease reveals this more than Type 2 diabetes.Sweetness in the Blood challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer.Trade Review"James Doucet-Battle has given us a brilliant book that uncovers the networks that support the pharmacapitalism of Type 2 diabetes. In this important study, we see the impact of economizing risk through biomarketing. Sweetness in the Blood is a must-read because it underscores the sacrificial labor of Black people as they become the targets of risk assessments for Type 2 diabetes and role that the technology plays in constructing ‘racial risk.’"—Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"Sweetness in the Blood is an indictment, not only of the global sugar industry, but of medical and biotech industries that insist on using biological race as a lens to explain and predict health disparities. Traversing breathtaking terrain, from sugar plantations to pharmaceutical board rooms, this is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how social inequity gets under the skin and for all those committed to health justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology"Sweetness in the Blood adds nuance to our understanding of race and chronic disease prevention management."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle offers a sweeping indictment of ways in which racial essentialism infiltrates the science and industry surrounding modern diabetes."—Social Forces"In this important contribution to deconstructing the intersections of race, capital, and disease, Doucet-Battle employs an ethnographic approach to explore the racialization of a disease, showing how the combined enterprises of pharma and medicine have constructed being African American as a risk. "—CHOICE"Doucet-Battle successfully presses his readers to question a handful of taken-for-granted concepts (i.e., race, risk, and diabetes). In that respect, Sweetness in the Blood is a wonderful example of the sociological craft. "—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Sugar’s Racial Project: From Slavery to Diabetes1. The At-Risk Ethnographer of Sweetness2. Sweet Blood: Inventing the Prediabetic3. Algorithms of Risk and Race: Recruiting Black Risk and Marketing Black Bodies4. A Dark Past in Present Light: The Black Church, Medicine, and Trust5. The Ascension of the Black Matriarch: The Search for Metabolic AfricaConclusion. The Racialized Pancreas: Toward Biosocial JusticeAcknowledgmentsA Subversive GlossaryNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in
Book SynopsisTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.Trade Review"Digitize and Punish is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson’s powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, illuminating the profound crisis ‘digital prisons’ have for all of us. It also accomplishes a rare scholarly feat: it’s written with crisp and, at times, witty prose. Read. This. Book."—Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"Digitize and Punish is both a meticulous history of ‘policing and punishing machines’ in New York City and Chicago and a moving call to abolish them everywhere and forever. Resisting the twin drumbeat narratives of disruption and placelessness, Brian Jefferson skillfully traces how the digital carceral state is rooted in and sustained by racial capitalism, with harrowing consequences for poor communities of color."—Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor"A haunting discourse."—CHOICE"The book makes a highly relevant contribution to contemporary criminal justice literature."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "A sharp and specific look at how policing molded our digital and physical worlds."—Wired"Brian Jefferson’s Digitize and Punish lays out its argument with clarity and purposeful precision, and is remarkably timely in light of national conversations about policing."—Lateral Journal "Digitize and Punish should be required reading for anyone interested in GIScience, big data, and digital geographies, let alone those in the discipline calling out traditions of exploitation and “discovery” at the heart of our geographical endeavors."—The Canadian Geographer "The overwhelming value of this book is its meticulous historical research and rich description spanning primarily from the 1960s to 2020 that ultimately provides an excellent foundation for researchers analyzing developments in the area of digitized discrimination of negatively racialized populations within the United States criminal justice system in 2021 and onward."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Table of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: NextGen Nightmare1. Criminalization and Computation2. Computerizing the Carceral State3. A Fully Automated Police Apparatus4. Punishment in the Network Form5. How to Program a Carceral CityConclusion: Viral AbolitionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in
Book SynopsisTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.Trade Review"Digitize and Punish is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson’s powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, illuminating the profound crisis ‘digital prisons’ have for all of us. It also accomplishes a rare scholarly feat: it’s written with crisp and, at times, witty prose. Read. This. Book."—Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"Digitize and Punish is both a meticulous history of ‘policing and punishing machines’ in New York City and Chicago and a moving call to abolish them everywhere and forever. Resisting the twin drumbeat narratives of disruption and placelessness, Brian Jefferson skillfully traces how the digital carceral state is rooted in and sustained by racial capitalism, with harrowing consequences for poor communities of color."—Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor"A haunting discourse."—CHOICE"The book makes a highly relevant contribution to contemporary criminal justice literature."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "A sharp and specific look at how policing molded our digital and physical worlds."—Wired"Brian Jefferson’s Digitize and Punish lays out its argument with clarity and purposeful precision, and is remarkably timely in light of national conversations about policing."—Lateral Journal "Digitize and Punish should be required reading for anyone interested in GIScience, big data, and digital geographies, let alone those in the discipline calling out traditions of exploitation and “discovery” at the heart of our geographical endeavors."—The Canadian Geographer "The overwhelming value of this book is its meticulous historical research and rich description spanning primarily from the 1960s to 2020 that ultimately provides an excellent foundation for researchers analyzing developments in the area of digitized discrimination of negatively racialized populations within the United States criminal justice system in 2021 and onward."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Table of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: NextGen Nightmare1. Criminalization and Computation2. Computerizing the Carceral State3. A Fully Automated Police Apparatus4. Punishment in the Network Form5. How to Program a Carceral CityConclusion: Viral AbolitionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou
Book SynopsisA vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou’s philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing. Elisabeth Paquette’s powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou’s theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou’s theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou’s 2017 book Black, while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because Négritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiou’s discussion of Négritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay “Black Orpheus” that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement. Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiou’s use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynter’s pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.Trade Review"Elisabeth Paquette has given us the book we needed about the radical French philosopher Alain Badiou, in large part because it is not a book about Badiou at all. Rather, by staging an encounter between Badiou and Sylvia Wynter, she sheds light on the limits of European radical thought in general and race-blind approaches to universal emancipation in particular."—George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Decolonizing Dialectics"Elisabeth Paquette offers a bold and incisive intervention into contemporary debates in political theory around questions of race, colonialism, and liberation. Universal Emancipation is a vital, timely, and important work that will prove an invaluable resource as we confront the ongoing legacy of racism and colonialism in the present moment."—Michael J. Monahan, author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of PurityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Indifference to Difference and Badiou’s Theory of Emancipation2. Badiou on Race and the Fanon–Sartre Debate3. A Critique of a Politics of Indifference4. Politics Is to Culture as Class Is to Race5. Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of EmancipationConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: A Timeline of the Haitian RevolutionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou
Book SynopsisA vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou’s philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing. Elisabeth Paquette’s powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou’s theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou’s theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou’s 2017 book Black, while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because Négritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiou’s discussion of Négritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay “Black Orpheus” that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement. Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiou’s use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynter’s pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.Trade Review"Elisabeth Paquette has given us the book we needed about the radical French philosopher Alain Badiou, in large part because it is not a book about Badiou at all. Rather, by staging an encounter between Badiou and Sylvia Wynter, she sheds light on the limits of European radical thought in general and race-blind approaches to universal emancipation in particular."—George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Decolonizing Dialectics"Elisabeth Paquette offers a bold and incisive intervention into contemporary debates in political theory around questions of race, colonialism, and liberation. Universal Emancipation is a vital, timely, and important work that will prove an invaluable resource as we confront the ongoing legacy of racism and colonialism in the present moment."—Michael J. Monahan, author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of PurityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Indifference to Difference and Badiou’s Theory of Emancipation2. Badiou on Race and the Fanon–Sartre Debate3. A Critique of a Politics of Indifference4. Politics Is to Culture as Class Is to Race5. Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of EmancipationConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: A Timeline of the Haitian RevolutionNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of Black queer selfhood. African American authors blame liberal humanism’s model of subjectivity for double consciousness and find that liberal humanism’s celebration of individual autonomy and agency is a way of disciplining Black queer lives. These authors thus reject subjectivity in search of a new mode of the self that Alvin J. Henry names “Black queer flesh”—a model of selfhood that is collective, plural, fluctuating, and deeply connected to the Black queer past. Henry begins with early twentieth-century authors such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and James Weldon Johnson. These authors adapted the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-formation, to show African Americans gaining freedom and agency by becoming a liberal, autonomous subjects. These authors, however, discovered that the promise of liberal autonomy held out by the Bildungsroman was yet another tool of antiblack racism. As a result, they tentatively experimented with repurposing the Bildungsroman to throw off subjectivity and its attendant double consciousness. In contrast, Nella Larsen, Henry shows, was the first author to fully reject subjectivity. In Quicksand and Passing, Larsen invented a new genre showing her queer characters—characters whose queerness already positioned them on the margins of subjectivity—escaping subjectivity altogether. Using Ralph Ellison’s archival drafts, Henry then powerfully rereads Invisible Man, revealing that the protagonist as a queer, disabled character taught by the novel’s many other queer, disabled characters to likewise seek a selfhood beyond subjectivity. Although Larsen and Ellison sketch glimpses of this selfhood beyond subjectivity, only Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments shows a protagonist fully inhabiting Black queer flesh—a new mode of selfhood that is collective, plural, always evolving, and no longer alienated from the black past.Black Queer Flesh is an original and necessary contribution to Black literary studies, offering new ways to understand and appreciate the canonical texts and far more. Trade Review"Alvin J. Henry’s Black Queer Flesh makes not only a significant and needed contribution to Black literary studies, but indeed will transform twentieth-century African American criticism and theory. His critical articulation of ‘Black queer flesh’ shaped by theories of Black self-abnegation offers a critical approach that makes it possible to rethink the Black queer self in key literary texts."—Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance"Alvin J. Henry’s lush theorization of Black queer flesh is a mode of being, a performance of the self outside of subjectivity that highlights how the anxieties and violence of racialization manifest. This is a study in negative sensation. Black Queer Flesh digests these moments of raw embodiment so as to remake intimacy, being, and the very nature of the novel itself."—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of Black queer selfhood. African American authors blame liberal humanism’s model of subjectivity for double consciousness and find that liberal humanism’s celebration of individual autonomy and agency is a way of disciplining Black queer lives. These authors thus reject subjectivity in search of a new mode of the self that Alvin J. Henry names “Black queer flesh”—a model of selfhood that is collective, plural, fluctuating, and deeply connected to the Black queer past. Henry begins with early twentieth-century authors such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and James Weldon Johnson. These authors adapted the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-formation, to show African Americans gaining freedom and agency by becoming a liberal, autonomous subjects. These authors, however, discovered that the promise of liberal autonomy held out by the Bildungsroman was yet another tool of antiblack racism. As a result, they tentatively experimented with repurposing the Bildungsroman to throw off subjectivity and its attendant double consciousness. In contrast, Nella Larsen, Henry shows, was the first author to fully reject subjectivity. In Quicksand and Passing, Larsen invented a new genre showing her queer characters—characters whose queerness already positioned them on the margins of subjectivity—escaping subjectivity altogether. Using Ralph Ellison’s archival drafts, Henry then powerfully rereads Invisible Man, revealing that the protagonist as a queer, disabled character taught by the novel’s many other queer, disabled characters to likewise seek a selfhood beyond subjectivity. Although Larsen and Ellison sketch glimpses of this selfhood beyond subjectivity, only Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments shows a protagonist fully inhabiting Black queer flesh—a new mode of selfhood that is collective, plural, always evolving, and no longer alienated from the black past.Black Queer Flesh is an original and necessary contribution to Black literary studies, offering new ways to understand and appreciate the canonical texts and far more. Trade Review"Alvin J. Henry’s Black Queer Flesh makes not only a significant and needed contribution to Black literary studies, but indeed will transform twentieth-century African American criticism and theory. His critical articulation of ‘Black queer flesh’ shaped by theories of Black self-abnegation offers a critical approach that makes it possible to rethink the Black queer self in key literary texts."—Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance"Alvin J. Henry’s lush theorization of Black queer flesh is a mode of being, a performance of the self outside of subjectivity that highlights how the anxieties and violence of racialization manifest. This is a study in negative sensation. Black Queer Flesh digests these moments of raw embodiment so as to remake intimacy, being, and the very nature of the novel itself."—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
£20.69
University of Minnesota Press The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the
Book SynopsisHow special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schoolsThe Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. As African American children integrated predominantly white schools, many were disproportionately labeled educable mentally retarded (EMR), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally behavioral disordered (EBD). Keith A. Mayes charts the evolution of disability categories and how these labels kept Black learners segregated in American classrooms.The civil rights and the educational disability rights movements, Mayes shows, have both collaborated and worked at cross-purposes since the beginning of school desegregation. Disability rights advocates built upon the opportunity provided by the civil rights movement to make claims about student invisibility at the level of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Although special education ostensibly included children from all racial groups, educational disability rights advocates focused on the needs of white disabled students, while school systems used disability discourses to malign and marginalize Black students.From the 1940s to the present, social science researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and teachers have each contributed to the overrepresentation of Black students in special education. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, The Unteachables explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect.Trade Review"The Unteachables offers a bold, highly insightful, and meticulously documented analysis of the racist underpinnings of special education. Keith A. Mayes shows how special education grew from white attempts to ‘protect’ white children from a racially integrated education. Drawing on his extensive background in African American history, Mayes brilliantly peels back the layers of an education system that purports to advance rights, even while it thwarts those of Black and Latinx students. The Unteachables should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how special education came to be structured as it is."—Christine Sleeter, coauthor of Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Research"As I read this brilliant and troubling book, I found myself nodding in agreement and grimacing in sadness. Prior scholarship on racial issues in special education has assumed that the underlying science of disability and the accompanying ideology of helpfulness are basically sound. In The Unteachables, Keith A. Mayes shows how a distinctly American brand of racism was baked into the conceptual and practical foundations of special education from the very start."—Scot Danforth, Chapman University
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the
Book SynopsisHow special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schoolsThe Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. As African American children integrated predominantly white schools, many were disproportionately labeled educable mentally retarded (EMR), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally behavioral disordered (EBD). Keith A. Mayes charts the evolution of disability categories and how these labels kept Black learners segregated in American classrooms.The civil rights and the educational disability rights movements, Mayes shows, have both collaborated and worked at cross-purposes since the beginning of school desegregation. Disability rights advocates built upon the opportunity provided by the civil rights movement to make claims about student invisibility at the level of intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Although special education ostensibly included children from all racial groups, educational disability rights advocates focused on the needs of white disabled students, while school systems used disability discourses to malign and marginalize Black students.From the 1940s to the present, social science researchers, policymakers, school administrators, and teachers have each contributed to the overrepresentation of Black students in special education. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, The Unteachables explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect.Trade Review"The Unteachables offers a bold, highly insightful, and meticulously documented analysis of the racist underpinnings of special education. Keith A. Mayes shows how special education grew from white attempts to ‘protect’ white children from a racially integrated education. Drawing on his extensive background in African American history, Mayes brilliantly peels back the layers of an education system that purports to advance rights, even while it thwarts those of Black and Latinx students. The Unteachables should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how special education came to be structured as it is."—Christine Sleeter, coauthor of Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Research"As I read this brilliant and troubling book, I found myself nodding in agreement and grimacing in sadness. Prior scholarship on racial issues in special education has assumed that the underlying science of disability and the accompanying ideology of helpfulness are basically sound. In The Unteachables, Keith A. Mayes shows how a distinctly American brand of racism was baked into the conceptual and practical foundations of special education from the very start."—Scot Danforth, Chapman University
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and
Book SynopsisExamining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present For the pasty fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism, Olivia C. Harrison explores the intersection of anticolonial solidarity and antiracist activism from the 1970s to the present.Natives against Nativism analyzes a wide range of texts—novels, memoirs, plays, films, and militant archives—that mobilize the twin figures of the Palestinian and the American Indian in a crossed critique of Eurocolonial modernity. Harrison argues that anticolonial solidarity with Palestinians and Indigenous Americans has been instrumental in developing a sophisticated critique of racism across imperial formations—in this case, France, the United States, and Israel.Serving as the first relational study of antiracism in France, Natives against Nativism observes how claims to indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in white nativist claims in France today.Trade Review"Olivia C. Harrison reads across a sweeping constellation of culture work, zooming in with a scalpel's precision on turns of phrase, camera angles, and audio soundtracks, and zooming out on thick transcolonial contexts and complex transindigenous identifications. An invaluable work for scholars of race, coloniality, and indigeneity!" —Keith P. Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in AmericaTable of ContentsContentsPrologueAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Palestine as Rallying Cry2. Jean Genet and the Politics of Betrayal3. The Contest for Indigeneity in Postcolonial France: On the Republication of Farida Belghoul’s Georgette!4. Subjects of Photography: Mohamed Rouabhi and the Colonial Cliché5. Indigeneity at the Borders of Europe: Palestinians and Indians in Jean-Luc Godard’s Films6. Palestine and the Migrant QuestionEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and
Book SynopsisExamining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present For the pasty fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism, Olivia C. Harrison explores the intersection of anticolonial solidarity and antiracist activism from the 1970s to the present.Natives against Nativism analyzes a wide range of texts—novels, memoirs, plays, films, and militant archives—that mobilize the twin figures of the Palestinian and the American Indian in a crossed critique of Eurocolonial modernity. Harrison argues that anticolonial solidarity with Palestinians and Indigenous Americans has been instrumental in developing a sophisticated critique of racism across imperial formations—in this case, France, the United States, and Israel.Serving as the first relational study of antiracism in France, Natives against Nativism observes how claims to indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in white nativist claims in France today.Trade Review"Olivia C. Harrison reads across a sweeping constellation of culture work, zooming in with a scalpel's precision on turns of phrase, camera angles, and audio soundtracks, and zooming out on thick transcolonial contexts and complex transindigenous identifications. An invaluable work for scholars of race, coloniality, and indigeneity!" —Keith P. Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in AmericaTable of ContentsContentsPrologueAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Palestine as Rallying Cry2. Jean Genet and the Politics of Betrayal3. The Contest for Indigeneity in Postcolonial France: On the Republication of Farida Belghoul’s Georgette!4. Subjects of Photography: Mohamed Rouabhi and the Colonial Cliché5. Indigeneity at the Borders of Europe: Palestinians and Indians in Jean-Luc Godard’s Films6. Palestine and the Migrant QuestionEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and
Book SynopsisA deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Covering a range of canonical works alongside many of their neglected contemporaries, this book explores film’s mutable relationship to the apparatuses of state power and racial capitalism. Exploiting realism’s aesthetic, experiential, and affective affordances, Mussolini’s biopolitical project employed cinema to advance an idealized vision of life under fascism and cultivate the basis for a homogenous racial identity. In this book, Lorenzo Fabbri crucially underscores realism’s susceptibility to manipulation from diametrically opposed political perspectives, highlighting the queer, Communist, Jewish, and feminist filmmakers who subverted Mussolini’s notion that “cinema is the regime’s strongest weapon” by developing film narratives and film forms that challenged the prevailing ethno-nationalist ideology. Focusing on an understudied era of film history and Italian cultural production, Fabbri issues an important recontextualization of Italy’s celebrated neorealist movement and the structural ties it shares with its predecessor. Drawing incisive parallels to contemporary debates around race, whiteness, authoritarianism, and politics, he presents an urgent examination into the broader impact of visual media on culture and society. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Lorenzo Fabbri’s book demonstrates how Italian Fascism wielded the cinematic apparatus to mobilize Italians as a racialized assemblage who would identify with the regime's myriad colonizing projects at home and abroad. That same apparatus was amenable to being hijacked by the resistance (embodied by Visconti and De Sica) to formulate plural, antifascist ways of living. A refreshing and beautifully written work, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon adds considerable nuance to our understandings of how Fascism works, and is actively contested, through film."—Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy "A richly researched and politically urgent exploration of how cinema under Mussolini worked to assemble Italians into a fascist collectivity mobilized less by ideological consent than racial affect. By attending to filmmaking as race-making, from Luigi Pirandello to Roberto Rossellini, Lorenzo Fabbri illuminates how—building on liberal policies of internal colonization and external colonialism—Italian Fascism embarked on a biopolitical project to forge a unified, ‘whitened’ body politic committed to a melodramatic brand of imperialism. Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon unsettles film histories and theories that pivot on the ‘Year Zero’ of Italian neorealism, challenging us to rethink the entanglements of race, media, and authoritarianism while also attending to how cinema could be made useless for Fascism."—Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments. Fascism and Us Introduction. Race War through Other Media 1. The Government of the Ungovernable: Race and Cinema in Early Italian Film Novels 2. Workers Entering the Military-Industrial Complex: Pirandello’s and Ruttman’s Acciaio 3. White, Red, Blackshirt: Blasetti’s Ecofascist Realism 4. The Shame of Escapism: Camerini’s Anthropological Machines 5. The White Italian Mediterranean: De Robertis, Rossellini, and Fascism’s Melodramatic Imperialism 6. De Sica’s Genre Trouble: Laughing Fascism Away? 7. Queer Antifascism: Visconti’s Ossessione and the Cinema Conspiracy against Ethno-Nationalism Conclusion. On Neorealism: The Ends of the Resistance and the Birth of an Area Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and
Book SynopsisA deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Covering a range of canonical works alongside many of their neglected contemporaries, this book explores film’s mutable relationship to the apparatuses of state power and racial capitalism. Exploiting realism’s aesthetic, experiential, and affective affordances, Mussolini’s biopolitical project employed cinema to advance an idealized vision of life under fascism and cultivate the basis for a homogenous racial identity. In this book, Lorenzo Fabbri crucially underscores realism’s susceptibility to manipulation from diametrically opposed political perspectives, highlighting the queer, Communist, Jewish, and feminist filmmakers who subverted Mussolini’s notion that “cinema is the regime’s strongest weapon” by developing film narratives and film forms that challenged the prevailing ethno-nationalist ideology. Focusing on an understudied era of film history and Italian cultural production, Fabbri issues an important recontextualization of Italy’s celebrated neorealist movement and the structural ties it shares with its predecessor. Drawing incisive parallels to contemporary debates around race, whiteness, authoritarianism, and politics, he presents an urgent examination into the broader impact of visual media on culture and society. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Lorenzo Fabbri’s book demonstrates how Italian Fascism wielded the cinematic apparatus to mobilize Italians as a racialized assemblage who would identify with the regime's myriad colonizing projects at home and abroad. That same apparatus was amenable to being hijacked by the resistance (embodied by Visconti and De Sica) to formulate plural, antifascist ways of living. A refreshing and beautifully written work, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon adds considerable nuance to our understandings of how Fascism works, and is actively contested, through film."—Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy "A richly researched and politically urgent exploration of how cinema under Mussolini worked to assemble Italians into a fascist collectivity mobilized less by ideological consent than racial affect. By attending to filmmaking as race-making, from Luigi Pirandello to Roberto Rossellini, Lorenzo Fabbri illuminates how—building on liberal policies of internal colonization and external colonialism—Italian Fascism embarked on a biopolitical project to forge a unified, ‘whitened’ body politic committed to a melodramatic brand of imperialism. Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon unsettles film histories and theories that pivot on the ‘Year Zero’ of Italian neorealism, challenging us to rethink the entanglements of race, media, and authoritarianism while also attending to how cinema could be made useless for Fascism."—Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments. Fascism and Us Introduction. Race War through Other Media 1. The Government of the Ungovernable: Race and Cinema in Early Italian Film Novels 2. Workers Entering the Military-Industrial Complex: Pirandello’s and Ruttman’s Acciaio 3. White, Red, Blackshirt: Blasetti’s Ecofascist Realism 4. The Shame of Escapism: Camerini’s Anthropological Machines 5. The White Italian Mediterranean: De Robertis, Rossellini, and Fascism’s Melodramatic Imperialism 6. De Sica’s Genre Trouble: Laughing Fascism Away? 7. Queer Antifascism: Visconti’s Ossessione and the Cinema Conspiracy against Ethno-Nationalism Conclusion. On Neorealism: The Ends of the Resistance and the Birth of an Area Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America
Book SynopsisAn intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in our moment and as a historical phenomenon.Framed through the experiences of the author’s biracial son, An Essay for Ezra is intensely personal while also powerfully universal. Drawing on the social and political thought of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Grant Farred examines the temptation and the perils of essentialism and the need to discriminate—to engage the black mind as much as the black body. With that dialectic as his starting point, Farred engages the ideas of Jameson, Barthes, Derrida, Adorno, Kant, and other thinkers to derive an ethics of being in our time of social peril. His antiessentialist racial analysis is salient, especially when he deploys Dave Chappelle as a counterpoint to Baldwin—and Chappelle’s brilliant comic philosophic voice jabs at both racial and gender identity.Standing apart for its willingness to explore terror in all its ambivalence, this theoretical reflection on racism, knowledge, ethics, and being in our neofascist present brings to bear the full weight of philosophical inquiry and popular cultural critique on black life in the United States.Trade Review"You can’t reassure the frightened child. Your letter must add to the child’s terror. Welcome to the world of racism in America. Brilliantly original, mixing Heidegger and Chappelle, Grant Farred proves that Baldwin’s genre has not exhausted its magical potential to provoke and instruct. By a mysterious dialectical legerdemain, he bestows on his son an unlikely endowment: a sort of Afro-optimism, both outraged and salvific."—Bruce Robbins, author of The Beneficiary"Phrased as an epistle to his young son, Grant Farred's An Essay for Ezra grapples with difficult loci of racial violence in U.S. culture and in various philosophical traditions, from the Black exile of Baldwin to Heideggerian questionability of self. He proposes new genealogies and new problems for struggles of becoming and judgment amid the perpetual crisis that is the American racial order."—Rei Terada, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsContents1. November, 20162. Martin Luther King and White People3. The Farceur4. De-racializing MLK5. Haunting: It Takes You Where You Don’t Want to Go6. And So I Turn to James Baldwin7. Do Not a Tarantula Be: A Nietzschean Interlude8. “Bagger Vance”Postscript: November 7, 2020AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women
Book SynopsisA twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new edition of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. In this bold book, of its time and ahead of its time, whiteness is made visible in power relations, presenting a dialogic of how white feminists represent Indigenous women in discourse and how Indigenous women self-present. Moreton-Robinson argues that white feminists benefit from colonization: they are overwhelmingly represented and disproportionately predominant, play the key roles, and constitute the norm, the ordinary, and the standard of womanhood. They do not self-present as white but rather represent themselves as variously classed, sexualized, aged, and abled. The disjuncture between representation and self-presentation of Indigenous women and white feminists illuminates different epistemologies and an incommensurability in the social construction of gender.Not so much a study of white womanhood, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman instead reveals an invisible racialized subject position represented and deployed in power relations with Indigenous women. The subject position occupied by middle-class white women is embedded in material and discursive conditions that shape the nature of power relations between white feminists and Indigenous women—and the unjust structural relationship between white society and Indigenous society. Table of ContentsContents20th Anniversary Preface by Aileen Moreton-RobinsonPreface by Karen BrodkinIntroduction: Talkin’ the TalkChapter OneTellin’ It Straight: Self-Presentation withinIndigenous Women’s Life WritingsChapter TwoLook Out White Woman: Representations of“The White Woman” in Feminist TheoryChapter ThreePuttem “Indigenous Woman”: Representations of the“Indigenous Woman” in White Women’s Ethnographic WritingsChapter FourLittle Bit Woman: Representations of Indigenous Womenin White Australian FeminismChapter FiveWhite Women’s Way: Self-Presentation withinWhite Feminist Academics’ TalkChapter SixTiddas Speakin’ Strong: Indigenous Women’sSelf-Presentation within White Australian FeminismChapter SevenConclusion: Talkin’ Up to the White WomanNotesReferencesIndexWhiteness Matters: Implications ofTalkin’ Up to the White WomanAcknowledgements
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University of Minnesota Press Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White
Book SynopsisHow Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism (often termed Islamophobia), insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. This book fills this gap while also providing a unique new global perspective on white supremacy. Sherene H. Razack, a leading critical race and feminist scholar, takes an innovative approach by situating law within media discourses and historical and contemporary realities. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim. Tracing how white subjects and majority-white nations in the post-9/11 era have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim, Razack examines four sites of anti-Muslim racism: efforts by American evangelical Christians to ban Islam in the school curriculum; Canadian and European bans on Muslim women’s clothing; racial science and the sentencing of Muslims as terrorists; and American national memory of the torture of Muslims during wars and occupations. Arguing that nothing has to make sense when the subject is Muslim, she maintains that these legal and cultural sites reveal the dread, phobia, hysteria, and desire that mark the encounter between Muslims and the West. Through the prism of racism, Nothing Has to Make Sense argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined in various ways to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism is a revelatory window into the operation of white supremacy as a global force. Trade Review"Boldly and elegantly, Sherene H. Razack lays bare the affective, legal, and material worlds that protect white supremacy and anti-Muslim racism. Theoretically rigorous while highly accessible, Nothing Has to Make Sense is one of the most urgent books on anti-Muslim racism of our times and a must read for anyone looking for an unflinching analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago"This is an essential text on race and racisms today, as well as the shifting language of white supremacy in Europe and North America, and their impact globally. We cannot understand the Global North without this timely and persuasive analysis of anti-Muslim affect as the link between Christianity, whiteness, and the colonial phantasms lurking in law and racial sciences. This is a crucial book for our times."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Anti-Muslim Racism, Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Law1. “A New Phase of a Very Old War”: Islam and White Conservative Christian Aggrievement2. “I Can Never Tell If You’re Responding to My Smile”: Desiring Muslim Women3. “Terrorism in Their Genes”: Racial Science and the Muslim Terrorist4. “We Didn’t Kill ’em, We Didn’t Cut Their Heads Off”: Torture and the Making of American InnocenceConclusion: Arriving as MuslimAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White
Book SynopsisHow Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism (often termed Islamophobia), insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. This book fills this gap while also providing a unique new global perspective on white supremacy. Sherene H. Razack, a leading critical race and feminist scholar, takes an innovative approach by situating law within media discourses and historical and contemporary realities. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim. Tracing how white subjects and majority-white nations in the post-9/11 era have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim, Razack examines four sites of anti-Muslim racism: efforts by American evangelical Christians to ban Islam in the school curriculum; Canadian and European bans on Muslim women’s clothing; racial science and the sentencing of Muslims as terrorists; and American national memory of the torture of Muslims during wars and occupations. Arguing that nothing has to make sense when the subject is Muslim, she maintains that these legal and cultural sites reveal the dread, phobia, hysteria, and desire that mark the encounter between Muslims and the West. Through the prism of racism, Nothing Has to Make Sense argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined in various ways to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism is a revelatory window into the operation of white supremacy as a global force. Trade Review"Boldly and elegantly, Sherene H. Razack lays bare the affective, legal, and material worlds that protect white supremacy and anti-Muslim racism. Theoretically rigorous while highly accessible, Nothing Has to Make Sense is one of the most urgent books on anti-Muslim racism of our times and a must read for anyone looking for an unflinching analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago"This is an essential text on race and racisms today, as well as the shifting language of white supremacy in Europe and North America, and their impact globally. We cannot understand the Global North without this timely and persuasive analysis of anti-Muslim affect as the link between Christianity, whiteness, and the colonial phantasms lurking in law and racial sciences. This is a crucial book for our times."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Anti-Muslim Racism, Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Law1. “A New Phase of a Very Old War”: Islam and White Conservative Christian Aggrievement2. “I Can Never Tell If You’re Responding to My Smile”: Desiring Muslim Women3. “Terrorism in Their Genes”: Racial Science and the Muslim Terrorist4. “We Didn’t Kill ’em, We Didn’t Cut Their Heads Off”: Torture and the Making of American InnocenceConclusion: Arriving as MuslimAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The School-Prison Trust
Book SynopsisConsiders colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoplesThe School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school–prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.
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University of Minnesota Press Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.-Mexico
Book SynopsisA comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border Border tunnels at the U.S.–Mexico border are ubiquitous in news, movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media. Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to—and fully understanding—the fraught relationship between their representation and reality. Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games, or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC’s Nightline and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º to reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the borderlands. Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can influence all kinds of audiences—even those physically near the border—Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border in all of its complexity and precariousness. Trade Review "Don’t miss this provocative and impressive study of the mediated imaginings and construction of the U.S.–Mexico border. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s Border Tunnels provides an original and illuminating investigation of the complex and intertwined subjects of U.S.–Mexico relations, media narratives and video games that focus on border security, and the political rhetoric of marginalization." —Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History "Juan Llamas-Rodriguez pushes the limits of media theory to help us think about borders, tunnels, and the complex social and material interrelations that define the U.S.–Mexico border. Subtle, creative, and theoretically sophisticated, Border Tunnels compels us to look at these material structures as media, as social organizers crafted by popular culture, policy, myth, engineering, and surveillance technologies." —Hector Amaya, author of Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States Table of Contents Contents Introduction: A Media Theory of the Border Tunnel 1. TV News and Spectacle 2. Reality TV and Performativity 3. Digital Animation and Plasticity 4. First-Person Shooters and Racialization 5. Speculative Design and Sustainability Conclusion: Media Theory from the Border Tunnel Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and
Book SynopsisA landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terrorists, maintain national security operations domestically, and produce certain narratives of conflict. Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role that these courts play in the global war on terror and their use as a weapon of war: hunting, criminalizing, and punishing entire communities in the name of national security. Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, encouraging readers to consider anti-imperial abolitionist alternatives to the criminalization, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals marked as real or perceived terrorists. She exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions, as well as how our fundamental misunderstanding of terrorism has led to punitive responses that do little to address the true sources of violence, such as military interventions, colonial occupations, and tyrannical regimes. Nguyen also explores how these criminal proceedings bear on the lives of defendants and families, seeking to understand how legal processes unevenly criminalize and disempower communities of color. A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world. Trade Review "Through its expansive analysis of anti-Muslim racism and the global war on terror, Terrorism on Trial reveals startling connections across some of the most urgent issues of our times—from U.S. settler colonialism and militarism to policing and global punishment. This book’s contextual approach to resistance and its coalitional approach to race, empire, and abolition provide an urgent foundation for anyone committed to life-affirming futures rooted in transnational BIPOC coalitions and solidarities."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago "Nicole Nguyen’s commanding study exposes how U.S. geopolitics play out in the criminal justice system in cases against people accused of terrorism. She shows how their prosecution—and prosecutability—often relies on allegations constructed from sting operations, Islamophobic impulses, and unfounded or propagandistic claims of the government’s favorite terrorologists."—Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Convicting Detainee #001: Locating the Courts in the Global War on Terror 1. Offensive Lawfare: The Juridification of the Global War on Terror 2. Defining the Bad Guys: Geopolitics, Terrorists, and the Courts 3. The Racialization of Legal Categories: From the Citizen to the Terrorist 4. Terrorologists: Epistemic Injustice in Terrorism Prosecutions 5. Prosecuting Lone Wolves: The Legal Life of Radicalization Theories Conclusion. Abolitionist Futures: Rethinking Power, Politics, and Violence Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and
Book SynopsisA landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terrorists, maintain national security operations domestically, and produce certain narratives of conflict. Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role that these courts play in the global war on terror and their use as a weapon of war: hunting, criminalizing, and punishing entire communities in the name of national security. Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, encouraging readers to consider anti-imperial abolitionist alternatives to the criminalization, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals marked as real or perceived terrorists. She exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions, as well as how our fundamental misunderstanding of terrorism has led to punitive responses that do little to address the true sources of violence, such as military interventions, colonial occupations, and tyrannical regimes. Nguyen also explores how these criminal proceedings bear on the lives of defendants and families, seeking to understand how legal processes unevenly criminalize and disempower communities of color. A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world. Trade Review "Through its expansive analysis of anti-Muslim racism and the global war on terror, Terrorism on Trial reveals startling connections across some of the most urgent issues of our times—from U.S. settler colonialism and militarism to policing and global punishment. This book’s contextual approach to resistance and its coalitional approach to race, empire, and abolition provide an urgent foundation for anyone committed to life-affirming futures rooted in transnational BIPOC coalitions and solidarities."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago "Nicole Nguyen’s commanding study exposes how U.S. geopolitics play out in the criminal justice system in cases against people accused of terrorism. She shows how their prosecution—and prosecutability—often relies on allegations constructed from sting operations, Islamophobic impulses, and unfounded or propagandistic claims of the government’s favorite terrorologists."—Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Convicting Detainee #001: Locating the Courts in the Global War on Terror 1. Offensive Lawfare: The Juridification of the Global War on Terror 2. Defining the Bad Guys: Geopolitics, Terrorists, and the Courts 3. The Racialization of Legal Categories: From the Citizen to the Terrorist 4. Terrorologists: Epistemic Injustice in Terrorism Prosecutions 5. Prosecuting Lone Wolves: The Legal Life of Radicalization Theories Conclusion. Abolitionist Futures: Rethinking Power, Politics, and Violence Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and
Book SynopsisDoes media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Demand grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice. Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media. Through an engagement with grassroots activist documentaries, experimental video diaries by undocumented and migrant workers, and works by high-profile media artists such as Hito Steyerl and Ming Wong, Feng-Mei Heberer showcases contemporary video productions that trouble the mainstream culture industry’s insistence on portraying ethnic Asians as congenial to dominant neoliberal values. Undermining the demands placed on Asian subjects to exemplify institutional diversity and individual exceptionalism, this book provides a critical and nuanced set of alternatives to the easily digestible forms generated by online streaming culture and multicultural lip service more broadly. Employing feminist, racial, and queer critiques of the contemporary media landscape, Asians on Demand highlights how the dynamics of Asian representation play out differently in Germany, the United States, Taiwan, and Spain. Rather than accepting the notion that inclusion requires an uncomplicated set of appearances, the works explored in this volume spotlight a staunch resistance to formulating racial identity as an instantly accessible consumer product. Trade Review "Asians on Demand heralds an original, new voice in Asian diasporic media studies. Challenging the uncritical embrace of respectable, normative, 'ready-made' images of Asians on global screens, Feng-Mei Heberer directs our attention to exciting video installations, performance art, and documentaries by Asian filmmakers, artists, and activists that advance searing critiques of the Asian on Demand while also showcasing the erotics, pleasures, and 'political desires' of queer, feminist, and diasporic Asian subjects at the beginning of the twenty-first century."—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation "Feng-Mei Heberer exposes the twinned logics of Asian racialization and transparent mediation, laying bare their complicity with contemporary neoliberal regimes of commodified diversity. Wonderfully nomadic in its exploration of video practices and rich with acerbic critique, Asians on Demand is an essential resource for an expanded critical cartography of media, diaspora, and race."—Steven Chung, author of Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Asians on Demand and the Refusal to Represent 1. Improper Asiatische Deutsche: The Video Art of Ming Wong and Hito Steyerl 2. Mental Health and Live Fictions: Kristina Wong and Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3. Stateless Cinema and the Undocument: Miko Revereza, Distancing, and No Data Plan 4. Migrant Erotics: TIWA’s Lesbian Factory and Rainbow Popcorn 5. Me llamo Peng: Self-Care with a Camcorder Acknowledgments Notes Index
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