{"product_id":"extraordinary-racial-politics-9781439915752","title":"Extraordinary Racial Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary Racial Politics explores the promise and perils of racially-based mass mobilizations and state emergencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDrawing on thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Fred Ho, Hannah Arendt, Michael Omi, and Howard Winant, Fred Lee explores a rich archive of racial struggles ranging from Indian removal to Japanese internment, from the civil rights movement to red power on Alcatraz Island to Asian-American activists at the International Hotel. His book is a timely reminder that even in the most perilous of times, the extraordinary is always latent within ordinary U.S. racial politics.\u003c\/i\u003e”—\u003cb\u003eCristina Beltrán\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWith unusual elegance and perspicacity, Fred Lee’s\u003c\/i\u003e Extraordinary Racial Politics\u003ci\u003e challenges familiar accounts of racial continuity and change in American politics. Courageously forging new ground between ethnic studies and political theory, Lee challenges readers to reaffirm and remember our capacity for extraordinary politics as integral for revitalizing collective political belonging in the most profound sense of what we can and could be.\u003c\/i\u003e Extraordinary Racial Politics\u003ci\u003e will be of vital interest to all seeking to come to terms with the compulsive idiosyncrasies of racial politics in our own dark times.\u003c\/i\u003e\"—\u003cb\u003eEdmund Fong\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at the University of Utah and author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Exceptionalism and the Remains of Race: Multicultural Exorcisms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408315490647,"sku":"9781439915752","price":77.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439915752.jpg?v=1730502409","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extraordinary-racial-politics-9781439915752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}