Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence
Will be published approx. on 7. July 2026
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-5315-1363-4 (ISBN)
Description
A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violence
This volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspec-tives, these essays - a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers - open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as simply a matter of "hate."
Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence makes crucial connections enabled by transnational, inter-sectional, comparative, and critical lenses, collectively interrogating the complex linkages between imperialist and settler colonial histories, modalities of violence, and the geopolitical formation of Asia and Asianness.
Working through and between a range of critical frameworks, including but not limited to the Black radical tradition, feminist and queer critiques, Indigenous and decolonial perspectives, critical pedagogies, and the anti-caste movement, this volume provides an original and layered interven-tion that strives to complicate the discourse of anti-Asian violence and attends to the multiple and different ways Asia and its diasporas can be located in relation to varied permutations of violence.
Importantly and powerfully, the insights offered in Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence point toward the possibilities for solidarities and movement-building across racial, ethnic, class, and gendered lines in the contemporary moment.
This volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspec-tives, these essays - a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers - open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as simply a matter of "hate."
Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence makes crucial connections enabled by transnational, inter-sectional, comparative, and critical lenses, collectively interrogating the complex linkages between imperialist and settler colonial histories, modalities of violence, and the geopolitical formation of Asia and Asianness.
Working through and between a range of critical frameworks, including but not limited to the Black radical tradition, feminist and queer critiques, Indigenous and decolonial perspectives, critical pedagogies, and the anti-caste movement, this volume provides an original and layered interven-tion that strives to complicate the discourse of anti-Asian violence and attends to the multiple and different ways Asia and its diasporas can be located in relation to varied permutations of violence.
Importantly and powerfully, the insights offered in Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence point toward the possibilities for solidarities and movement-building across racial, ethnic, class, and gendered lines in the contemporary moment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5315-1363-4 (9781531513634)
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Iyko Day (Afterword By)
Iyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism.
Susan Thomas (Edited By)
Susan Thomas is Associate Professor in the Cultural Foundations of Education program and a Senior Research Associate with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University. She is the author of Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University.
Antonio Tiongson (Edited By)
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation and co-editor of Filpinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation (Fordham).
Chandan Reddy (Foreword By)
Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State.
Iyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism.
Susan Thomas (Edited By)
Susan Thomas is Associate Professor in the Cultural Foundations of Education program and a Senior Research Associate with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University. She is the author of Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University.
Antonio Tiongson (Edited By)
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation and co-editor of Filpinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation (Fordham).
Chandan Reddy (Foreword By)
Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State.