
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2012
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-520-27343-6 (ISBN)
Description
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; indigeneity 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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 line illustrations, 1 table
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-27343-6 (9780520273436)
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Daniel Martinez Hosang | Oneka Labennett | Laura Pulido
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
E-Book
09/2012
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€33.99
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Persons
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).
Content
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 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