Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to
reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two
contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The
first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political
economy, making racialized life in America illegible. This
approach's prevalence, in the academy and beyond, now rises to the
level of established doctrine. The second approach views racial
identity as the function of a particular political economy-what is
called "racial capitalism>-and therefore analytically
subordinates racial identity to political economy. Jonathan Tran
develops arguments in favor of this second approach. He does so by
means of an extended analysis of two case studies: a Chinese
migrant settlement in the Mississippi Delta (1868-1969) and the
Redeemer Community Church in the Bayview/Hunters Point section of
San Francisco (1969-present). While his analysis is focused on
particular groups and persons, he uses it to examine more broadly
racial capitalism's processes and commitments at the sites of their
structural and systemic unfolding. In pursuing a research agenda
that pushes beyond the narrow confines of racial identity, Tran
reaches back to trusted modes of analysis that have been obscured
by the prevailing antiracist orthodoxy and proposes reframing
antiracism in terms of a theologically salient account of political
economy.
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