Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic
studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of
racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the
possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the "strange
affinities," afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial
formations. The nationalist and identity-based concepts of race
underlying the mid-twentieth-century movements for decolonization
and social change are not adequate to the tasks of critiquing the
racial configurations generated by neocolonialism and contesting
its inequities. Contemporary regimes of power produce racialized,
gendered, and sexualized violence and labor exploitation, and they
render subjects redundant and disposable by creating new, nominally
nonracialized categories of privilege and stigma. The editors of
"Strange Affinities" contend that the greatest potential for
developing much-needed alternative comparative methods lies in
women of color feminism, and the related intellectual tradition
that Roderick A. Ferguson has called queer of color critique.
Exemplified by the work of Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara
Smith, and the Combahee River Collective, these critiques do not
presume homogeneity across racial or national groups. Instead, they
offer powerful relational analyses of the racialized, gendered, and
sexualized valuation and devaluation of human life.
Contributors
Victor Bascara
Lisa Marie Cacho
M. Bianet Castellanos
Martha Chew Sanchez
Roderick A. Ferguson
Grace Kyungwon Hong
Helen H. Jun
Kara Keeling
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Jodi Melamed
Chandan Reddy
Ruby C. Tapia
Cynthia Tolentino
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(4)
