Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780520273443

ISBN-10: 0520273443

ISBN-13: 9780520273443

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, Laura Pulido

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Jennifer L. Anderson is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Oneka LaBennett is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University.



List of Illustrations


Introduction




Racial Formation Theory Revisited



Gendering Racial Formation




On the Specificities of Racial Formation: Gender and Sexuality in Historiographies of Race




The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination




Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy




Racial Projects and Histories of Racialization



The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness




The Unbearable lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America




Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States




Kill the Messengers: Can We Achieve Racial Justice without Mentioning Race?




The New Racial Preferences: Rethinking Racial Projects




War and the Racial Stats



"We didn't kill 'cm, we didn't cut their head offï¿½: Abu Ghraib Revisited




The "War on Terrorï¿½ as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Tram) Formations




Racial Formation in an Age of Permanent War



Conclusion Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, and Change



Bibliography


List of Contributors


Acknowledgements


Index