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CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES This page intentionally left blank CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES A R E A D E R Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective nada elia, david M. hernández, jodi kim, shana L. redmond, dylan rodrÍguez, and sarita echavez see Duke University Press • Durham and London • 2016 © 2016 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Arno Pro and Trade Gothic by Westchester Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Elia, Nada, author, editor. | Kim, Jodi, [date] author, editor. |Redmond, Shana L., author, editor. | Rodriguez, Dylan, author, editor.See, Sarita Echavez, author, editor. | Hernández, David, [date] author, editor. | Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective, author, editor. Title: Critical ethnic studies : a reader / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective, Nada Elia, David Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2015044104 isbn 9780822361084 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9780822361275 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 9780822374367 (e- book) Subjects: lcsh: Ethnology— Research. | Race relations— Research. Ethnicity— Research. | Minorities— Research. Classification: lcc gn316 .c758 2016 | ddc305.80072— dc23 lc rec ord available at http:// lccn . loc . gov / 2015044104 Cover art: Sofia Maldonado, Decolonized, 2013. Image courtesy of Sofia Maldonado and Magnan Metz Gallery. Photo by Zach Callahan. chapter 5, “Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization and Globalization” was previously published as Haritaworn, Jin, “Beyond ‘Hate’: Queer Metonymies of Crime, Pathology, and Anti- Vio lence,” in Jindal Global Law Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2, November 2013, reproduced with permission of Jindal Global Law Review. chapter 12, “Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin’ Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery,” was previously published as “Disability as ‘Becoming’: Notes on the Po litic al Economy of the Flesh,” in Er- evelles, Nirmala, Disability and Difference in Global Context (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. chapter 19, “Up in the Air and On the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain,” was previ- ously published as Kapadia, Ronak, “Up in the Air and On the Skin: Wafaa Bilal, Drone Warfare, and the Human Terrain,” in Shifting Borders: Amer i ca and the Middle East/North Africa, ed. Alex Lubin (American University of Beirut Press, 2014), republished with permission of the American University of Beirut Press. chapter 20 was previously published as Feldman, Keith, “Empire’s Verticality: The Af/Pak Frontier, Vi- sual Culture, and Racialization from Above,” Comparative American Studies, Vol. 9 no. 4, online available at http:// www . maneyonline . com / loi / cas, republished with permission of Maney Publishing. chapter 23 was previously published as Maldonado- Torres, Nelson, “Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn,” Radical Philosophy Review Vol. 9, no. 2, 2006, republished with permission of Philosophy Documen- tation Center. CONTENTS Preface • ix critical ethnic studies editorial collective Introduction: A Sightline • 1 critical ethnic studies editorial collective I. The Multicultural Nation and the Vio lence of Liberal Rights ONE. “As Though It Were Our Own”: Against a Politics of Identification • 19 shana l. redmond TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black- White Binary • 43 john d. mÁrquez THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization • 63 joão h. costa vargas FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State • 92 lindsey schneider FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization • 106 jin haritaworn SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See • 138 moderated by sarita echavez see II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University SEVEN. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education • 161 long t. bui EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What “We Are All Palestinians” R eally Means • 175 nada elia NINE. Restructuring, Re sis tance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University • 190 tania das gupta TEN. “The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety”: On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity • 203 david lloyd ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing • 215 dan berger III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin’ Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery • 231 nirmala erevelles THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung’s Creative Modalities of Resignification • 252 bo luengsuraswat FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha’s Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Vio lence of Uneven Development in Animal’s P eople • 269 andrew uzendoski FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier’s Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Per for mance and Aloha in Drag • 281 stephanie nohelani teves IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention • 303 david m. hernández SEVENTEEN. Of “Mates” and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941–1943 • 326 jason luna gavilan EIGH TEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, “Illegal” Possibilities, and Globalizing Mi grant Life • 344 gilberto rosas NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain • 360 ronak k. kapadia TWENTY. Empire’s Verticality: The Af- Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above • 376 keith p. feldman V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures TWENTY- ONE. Decolonization, “Race,” and Remaindered Life under Empire • 395 neferti x. m. tadiar TWENTY- TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right- Left Convergence • 416 robert stam and ella shohat TWENTY- THREE. Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn • 435 nelson maldonado- torres TWENTY- FOUR. Checkered Choices, Po liti cal Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México- Americana • 463 laura pulido TWENTY- FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life • 477 alexander g. weheliye Bibliography • 495 Contributors • 535 Index • 539 PREFACE Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective: nada elia, david M. hernández, jodi kim, shana l. redmond, dylan rodríguez, and sarita echavez see The canvas is dripping with blood. The abstraction suggests a decolonization with- out guarantees, meaning its goals, strategies, and imaginings of alternative futuri- ties in multiple sites and scales are unpredictable, contingent, and stubbornly dif- ficult. The corporeality of blood, on the other hand, makes concrete decolonization a proj ect that is urgent, agonistic, and structured by vio lence. This dialectic of de- colonization is also evoked by what is rendered in black— billowing featheriness versus piercing bolts of lightning. Critical ethnic studies is a proj ect saturated with the pasts of our making and the expectations for our futures yet to come. Our efforts to render that proj- ect here is, like the painting Decolonized by the Puerto Rican– born artist So- phia Maldonado, a narrative that is not singular but part of a larger oeuvre of thought that is instructive but not exhaustive. This anthology might be read as emblematic of a time, a place, and a group, but we encourage readers to consider it a meditation rather than a symbol. As such we begin with our meditations on this collection— filtered through Maldonado’s art— which urges us not merely to write and think about but also to see, smell, and feel
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