Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality (New Racial Studies)

Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality (New Racial Studies)

by Sunaina Maira (Editor), Howard Winant (Editor), Paola Bacchetta (Editor)

Synopsis

Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place, exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights; Islamophobia; and homonationalism; and investigate the dynamic forces propelling anti-racist solidarity and resistance cultures. Midway through the Trump years and with a rise in nativism fervour across the globe, this expanded approach captures the creativity and variety found in the fight against racism we see the world over.

Chapters focus on both the immersive global trajectories or race and racism, and the international variation in contemporary configurations of racialized experience. Race, class and gender identities may not only be distinctive, they can extend across borders, continents, and oceans with remarkable demonstrations of solidarity happening all over the world. Palestinians, Black Panthers, Dalit, Native Americans and Indian feminists among others meet and interact in this context. Intersections between race and such forms of power as colonialism and empire, capitalism, gender, sexuality, religion, and class are examined and compared across different national and global contexts. It is in this robust and comparative analytical approach, that Global Raciality reframes conventional studies on postcolonial regimes and racial identities and expression.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 16 Nov 2018

ISBN 10: 1138391646
ISBN 13: 9781138391642

Author Bio
Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Vice Chair of Pedagogy in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is sole author or contributing co-editor of the following books: Co-Motion: Situated Planetarities, Co-Formations and Co-Productions in Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke University Press, forthcoming); Femminismi Queer Postcoloniali: critiche transnazionali all'omofobia, all'islamofobia e all'omonazionalismo (Queer Postcolonial Feminisms: Transnational Critiques of Homophobia, Islamophobia and Homonationalism, with Laura Fantone, Ombre Corte, 2015); Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues (India, Women Ink, 2004); and Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World (with Margaret Power, New York, Routledge, 2002). She is co-curator of the archive on Lesbian Theories and Practices from France, 1970s to Present. She has published over forty-five journal articles and book chapters on: analytics of multiplicities of relations of power (intersectionality, assemblages, articulations, co-formations, co-productions); postcolonial, decolonial, anti-capitalist feminist and queer of color theories; social movements; and global political conflict. Her areas of specialization are France, India, and the U.S. For more information: academia.edu/PaolaBacchetta Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies and Co-Director of the Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11. She co-edited Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award, and The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Her new book, The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror, is a study of South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American youth and political movements focused on civil and human rights and issues of sovereignty and surveillance in the War on Terror. Maira has been involved with various community organizations and antiwar and global justice groups in the Bay Area and nationally.