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This book is intended as a textbook on laser physics for advanced
undergraduates and first-year graduate students in physics and
engineering who need to use lasers in their labs and want to
understand the physical processes involved with the laser
techniques in their fields of study. This book aims to provide a
coherent theoretical framework on the light-matter interaction
involved with lasers in such a way that students can easily
understand the essential topics related to lasers and their
applications and get accustomed to the latest cutting-edge research
developments. Most of all, the content of this book is concise to
be covered in a semester.
Universality is a dangerous concept, according to Grace Kyungwon
Hong, one that has contributed to the rise of the U.S. nation-state
that privileges the propertied individual. However, African
American, Asian American, and Chicano people experience the same
stretch of city sidewalk with varying degrees of safety,
visibility, and surveillance. The Ruptures of American Capital
examines two key social formations--women of color feminism and
racialized immigrant women's culture--in order to argue that race
and gender are contradictions within the history of U.S. capital
that should be understood not as monolithic but as marked by its
crises. Hong shows how women of color feminism identified ways in
which nationalist forms of capital, such as the right to own
property, were repressive. The Ruptures of American Capital
demonstrates that racialized immigrant women's culture has brought
to light contested modes of incorporation into consumer culture.
Interweaving discussion of U.S. political economy with literary
analyses (including readings from Booker T. Washington to Jessica
Hagedorn) Hong challenges the individualism of the United States
and the fetishization of difference that is one of the markers of
globalization. Grace Kyungwon Hong is assistant professor of
English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
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
Death beyond Disavowal utilizes "difference" as theorized by women
of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by
people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures
of contemporary neoliberalism. According to Grace Kyungwon Hong,
neoliberalism is first and foremost a structure of disavowal
enacted as a reaction to the successes of the movements for
decolonization, desegregation, and liberation of the post-World War
II era. It emphasizes the selective and uneven affirmation and
incorporation of subjects and ideas that were formerly
categorically marginalized, particularly through invitation into
reproductive respectability. It does so in order to suggest that
racial, gendered, and sexualized violence and inequity are
conditions of the past, rather than the foundations of contemporary
neoliberalism's exacerbation of premature death. Neoliberal
ideologies hold out the promise of protection from premature death
in exchange for complicity with this pretense. In Audre Lorde's
Sister Outsider, Cherrie Moraga's The Last Generation and Waiting
in the Wings, Oscar Zeta Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach
People, Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora,
Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston, Inge Blackman's B. D. Women,
Rodney Evans's Brother to Brother, and the work of the late Barbara
Christian, Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and
precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase. Hong posits
cultural production as a compelling rejoinder to neoliberalism's
violences. She situates women of color feminism, often dismissed as
narrow or limited in its effect, as a potent diagnosis of and
alternative to such violences. And she argues for the importance of
women of color feminism to any critical engagement with
contemporary neoliberalism.
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