... Racial formation emerged in opposition to the dominance of the ethnic model in U.S. sociology. For post-1968 ethnic studies, race is the defining subject matter of the field and racial formation is the theory that best explains race. The theory holds that race, while a social construction...

... racial formation racial contract whiteness critical theory critical race theory ...

... settler colonialism social movements activist scholarship Maoism racial formation ...

... This essay argues that critical ethnic studies emerged from and needs to be connected to social movement knowledge production. It analyzes a lost archive of ethnic studies movement knowledge through an examination of subterranean literature on racial formation and settler colonialism produced...

... up not of a fictively fixed and finite set of features but of an essentialized, malleable, and substitutable range. Racial formations combine elements of fixity and fluidity in ways that make them both resilient and impervious to empirical, experiential counterclaims Racial epistemologies...

... white women Hottentot nymphae psychoanalysis racial science subject formation ...

... of a seemingly inherently comic mode of blackface minstrelsy—the ongoing expression of racial violence through humor—raises important questions about racial formation, the policing of racist acts, and the conflation of fantasies of a world without racism and a world without race. laughter race blackface...

... assumptions about what colonialism and racism once looked like make little room for the mobile essentialisms that produce racism’s protean qualities. Racial essences are made up not of a fictively fixed and finite set of features but of an essentialized, malleable, and substitutable range. Racial formations...

... that critical ethnic studies emerged from and needs to be connected to social movement knowledge production. It analyzes a lost archive of ethnic studies movement knowledge through an examination of subterranean literature on racial formation and settler colonialism produced in the 1980s and 1990s by a Chicago...

... This chapteroffers a detailed and careful analysis of how animation demonstrates the historical specificity, the continuities and discontinuities in racial formations. The transition to sound was ushered in by jazz music and jazz cartoons: fantastic representations of the imagined realms...

... Ligon’s pastiche notices for runaway slaves; film essays by Ngozi Onwurah, Raoul Peck, and Marlon Riggs, and installations by Zarina Bhimi, the chapter argues that Fanon’s insights into the racial formation of subjectivity are undiminished in their contemporary relevance, even as problems of homophobia...

... enforcement, cultural and racial mixing, or mestizaje , and emerging forms of undocumented youth activism and identity formation. The essay suggests that borders, mestizaje, and “illegal” identities have been dramatically reworked and resignified on the ground. racism identity borders immigration ...

... Boyce’s collages and Glenn Ligon’s pastiche notices for runaway slaves; film essays by Ngozi Onwurah, Raoul Peck, and Marlon Riggs, and installations by Zarina Bhimi, the chapter argues that Fanon’s insights into the racial formation of subjectivity are undiminished in their contemporary relevance, even...

... This chapter concludes part I on genres of realism by returning to the comparison between socialist reality-based educational programs and the global reality formats that have flooded postsocialist screens since the early 1990s. While socialist programming revolved around the white, male citizen...

... This chapter explores nationalism and postnationalism, identity formation, “Raza studies,” decolonizing education, and conflict resolution–especially as these are enacted by writers, artists, scholars, and activists. Focusing on “Raza Studies y la raza,” Anzaldúa applies her theory...