Strange Affinities

Strange Affinities

The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization

  • Author: Hong, Grace Kyungwon; Ferguson, Roderick A.
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: Perverse modernities
  • ISBN: 9780822349709
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822394075
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2011
  • Month: August
  • Pages: 384
  • DDC: 305.42089
  • Language: English
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, Cherríe 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 Sánchez
Roderick A. Ferguson
Grace Kyungwon Hong
Helen H. Jun
Kara Keeling
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Jodi Melamed
Chandan Reddy
Ruby C. Tapia
Cynthia Tolentino

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Alternative Identifications
    • One: Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead
    • Two: I = Another: Digital Identity Politics
    • Three: Reading Tehran in Lolita: Making Racialized and Gendered Difference Work for Neoliberal Multiculturalism
  • 2. Undisciplined Knowledges
    • Four: The Lateral Moves of African American Studies in a Period of Migration
    • Five: Volumes of Transnational Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill
    • Six: Time for Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, and the Limits of Comparative Legal Justice
    • Seven: Romance with a Message: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess and the Problem of the Color Line
  • 3. Unincorporated Territories, Interrupted Times
    • Eight: ‘‘In the Middle’’ The Miseducation of a Refugee
    • Nine: Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico
    • Ten: Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and the Limits of Nationalism in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
    • Eleven: Becoming Chingón/a: A Gendered and Racialized Critique of the Global Economy
    • Twelve: Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship
    • Thirteen: ‘‘A Deep Sense of No Longer Belonging’’: Ambiguous Sites of Empire in Ana Lydia Vega’s Miss Florence’s Trunk
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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