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Book SynopsisBrings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. This book explores far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; and genetics and the body.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Daniel Martinez HoSang and Oneka LaBennett Part I. Racial Formation Theory Revisited 1. Gendering Racial Formation Priya Kandaswamy 2. On the Specificities of Racial Formation: Gender and Sexuality in the Historiographies of Race Roderick A. Ferguson 3. The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination James Kyung-Jin Lee 4. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy Andrea Smith Part II. Racial Projects and Histories of Racialization 5. The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness Matthew Garcia 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America Michelle A. McKinley 7. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States Tomas Almaguer 8. Kill the Messengers: Can We Achieve Racial Justice without Mentioning Race? Gary Delgado 9. The New Racial Preferences: Rethinking Racial Projects Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris Part III. War and the Racial State 10. "We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their head off": Abu Ghraib Revisited Sherene H. Razack 11. The "War on Terror" as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Trans)Formations Nicholas De Genova 12. Racial Formation in an Age of Permanent War Nikhil Singh Conclusion. Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, and Change Michael Omi and Howard Winant Bibliography List of Contributors Acknowledgements Index
