...Jacqueline Nassy Brown This article critically examines a common premise of racial discourse in contemporary multiracial societies: that ethnic data collection, in the form of population statistics, is necessary for the apprehension and eradication of discrimination. Drawing on ethnographic data...

...Magnus Fiskesjö Until the mid-twentieth century, the written Chinese names for China's “barbarian” others included components that purposefully classified such people with animals. This long-lived official definition of ethnic others as subhuman was accomplished by using a range of standard...

... discreet formation affecting only previously or actually socialist countries and that, when seen through the lens of Marxist humanism, to which American ethnic studies can be considered heir, the condition today in China and globally is resoundingly not posthumanist. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...

... and experts; through experiential ways of knowing and understanding practices of ethnic cleansing and apartheid; and by being present for and with Palestinian testimony in places Americans seldom go and in this way intimately witnessing quotidian parameters of life under occupation. This article...

...Judith A. Peraino In an interview from 1974 David Bowie makes a remarkable statement: “For the West, Jagger is most certainly a mother figure… . I also find him incredibly motherly and maternal clutched into his bosom of ethnic blues.” The image is grotesque—intentionally shocking—yet oddly...

...Jodi A. Byrd This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular...

... departmentalization of feminist, queer, ethnic, and disability studies into the academic industry has produced a condition whereby we teach majorities to consume minority life—a condition that flattens some discordant and unappetizing affects. This section traces the lingering effects of Marxist and the Frankfurt...

... the emptiness of humanitarian law, the displaced person, who is a complex political actor, is entirely depoliticized and rendered unintelligible. The largely ignored program of ethnic cleansing in Gujarat, India, in 2000 provides an example of this now routine process of sovereignty. © 2008 Duke...

... ethnic transformation of the farm work- force, farmworkers have displayed a tendency to become more sedentary. While many farmworkers continue to be migrant workers, a sizeable and growing portion of the farm workforce does not leave the state at the end of each agricultural production season...

...C. Nadia Seremetakis Duke University Press 2001 Agger, Ben. 1989 . Fast capitalism: A critical theory of significance . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Appadurai, Arjun. 1998 . Dead certainty: Ethnic violence in the era of globalization. Public Culture 10 : 225 -47...

... and ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University. She is the author of Migrant Imagi- naries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.SMexico Borderlands (NYU Press). Her second book, The Event without Witness: State Violence and Migrant Suffering on the Frontiers of North America (NYU...

... Jerusalem. Contrasting insights from very different solutions to a communal conflict sheds light on the nature of ethnicity as well as the limits of negotiation politics. Historical Background and Conceptual Clarification of “Settler States...

... Center and was a 2005–6 Rockefeller Fellow at Stony Brook University’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Gray’s work on Latino and labor politics focuses on immigration, race and ethnicity, and transnationalism. She has a decade’s experience working for non­ profits on economic justice...

... 2009 Social Te x t   98 Diaspora and the Localities of Race Special Issue Editor Minkah Makalani Introduction: Diaspora and the Localities of Race  Minkah Makalani 1 The Racial State of the Everyday and the Making of Ethnic Statistics in Britain  •  Jacqueline Nassy...

..., Adam has published extensively on comparative ethnic conflicts, particularly sociopolitical devel- opments in South Africa. He was awarded the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent publication is Peace...

... assistant professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University. She is working on an ethnographic study of Indians who migrated to Brunei between the 1940s and 1960s to work for Brunei Shell Petroleum Company. Ellen Messer-Davidow is professor of English at the University of...

... absolute moral certitude, such as the ethnic essen- tialism of Radovan Karadzic and his supporters or the current American universal of compulsory democracy, from which they project and propel scenarios of diachronic trajectory. Technologies of terror render life worlds into fabricated cartographies...

... people to accept the civic liberals’ distinction between “civic” and “ethnic” nation- alism.14 Civic nationalism is supposed to be democratic and good, to be based on civic allegiance to a place and a set of institutions, and to have been embodied (yet...

... in his stay in New York when he exhibited as part of a group show in 1982 at the Kenkeleba House, an exhibition space in the East Village far out of the postmodern art orbit, known at the time for exhibiting mostly “ethnic” art. The...

... burden, and he consequently cast a group of amateur teenage actors from a range of ethnic backgrounds for his first “big multi-­ethnic production.”18 In an interview with Lawrence Chua, Araki admits their ethnicities were interchangeable within the...