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

... Racial formation theory arose as a critique of US sociology’s ethnicity-, nation-, and class-based models that slight race. Instead, the theory holds, race is a central, irreducible element of social relations that implicate social, economic, and political meanings and practices. Racial...

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

... 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...

... The introduction proposes that each chapter in this volume addresses the simultaneity of cisness as a bifurcating and hierarchizing ideology that is fundamental to racial, colonial, and class formation. It offers a theory of sexual difference without cisness to systematize the theoretical...

... 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...

... of geology situates how earth theories identify and structure much more than rocks, metals, and minerals. It shows how racialization (and its gendered and sexualized forms) became inextricably imbricated in ideas of the earth, the narrativizing of temporality, and material practices of extraction. Second...

... 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...

... 1980s intellectual history This chapter considers the impact of queer theory on queer anthropology, of queer anthropology on queer theory, and of the insights of queer empiricism on queer studies as a whole—a genealogy too often sidelined or erased. The chapter considers three signal moments...

... the production of decolonial knowledge formations, such as what were later called “ethnic studies.” coloniality decoloniality decolonial turn decolonial sciences transmodernity This essay contributes to contemporary debates on Mexican American racial identity. Although numerous scholars have...

... and the making of territorialized sovereignties. More concretely, the cybernetic border is made through and makes possible relations between information and racial formation; information infrastructures in border enforcement work to make bodies differentially legible. Information is fundamentally a boundary...

... explores how Cheung’s work foregrounds racialization as a regime of gendering and challenges the progressive narrative of subject formation central to the conceptualization of transgender identity. As an artwork that represents Cheung’s struggle to rebuild a relationship with his mother, Mama & Me...

... of (full) democratic citizenship for people of African descent historically and in the present. The institution of marriage is evaluated as a “heterexpectation” that serves as a problematic foundation of the nation-state. Entanglement theory gives spring, bounce, and direction to the possibilities...

...Detours and Returns This chapter offers an overview of Stuart Hall’s approach to diaspora, placing the emphasis on his conjunctural analysis of the “ethnic signifier” as it is articulated in different social formations, such as postindependence Jamaica and post-Empire Britain. It is argued...

...Mapping Literary Geographies This chapter examines the Greater Antillean routes in Díaz’s work to unveil how the Caribbean, a central site of the modern era’s most intense mobility of people, as a point of departure or destination, has given rise to diasporic formations. It places Díaz...