Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27344-3
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings 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. The contributors explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant’s influential theory of racial formation and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hosang, Daniel Martinez

HoSang, Daniel Martinez

LaBennett, Oneka

Pulido, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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

Tomás 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

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel HoSang is Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. His first book, Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (UC Press), won the James A. Rawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.

Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and is the author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn.

Laura Pulido is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Among her books is Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles and A People's Guide to Los Angeles, (UC Press).