...Stephanie Li In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way of...

...Marlon B. Ross This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis...

... new feminist reflection on the possibilities of political praxis in the age of biopolitics. © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Ewa Płonowska Ziarek Bare Life on Strike: Notes on the Biopolitics of Race and Gender One of the most important contributions of...

... inextricably braided epistemological conditions that make marriage equality compatible with the abrogation of the Voting Rights Act and black political autonomy. And it challenges queer theory to take up race as an alternative contingent foundation for thinking about and engaging the time we collectively...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

...Marcyliena Morgan 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Marcyliena Morgan Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity Until the late 1950s, one of America’s worst- kept secrets was its repression of blacks...

...John Hartigan, Jr. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 John Hartigan Jr. Culture against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial Analysis The subject of race is riven with many inter- esting fissures. There are deep gulfs between...

...Richard Thompson Ford Duke University Press 2007 Richard Thompson Ford What’s Queer about Race? ​When I announced my engagement to be mar- ried, almost everyone offered the obligatory con- gratulations and best wishes...

... Eastern” appearance was attacked. It is significant that the Cronulla race riots took place on the beach, a site where cultural differences have been contested in Australia's past—and present, in light of the war on terror. Cronulla is steeped in surfing tradition, and a cultural process known to surfers...

... . 1996 . Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation . New York : Cambridge University Press . Blight David . 2011 . American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Brown Joseph, SJ. 1995 . “ I, John, Saw the Holy Number...

.... This essay articulates that frame. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Banner Stuart . 2005 . How the Indians Lost Their Land . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bashkow Ira . 2006 . The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural...

... . Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism . New York : Continuum . Gordon Jane Anna . 2006 . “ Some Reflections on Challenges Posed to the Social Scientific Study of Race .” In A Companion to African-American Studies , edited by Gordon Lewis R. Gordon Jane Anna , 279 – 304...

... revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts and...

... it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.” My essay argues that Obama's bows to Akihito followed by a slight bow to Chinese president Hu Jintao several months later should be seen as a displacement of what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls the “global idea of race,” where since the First Opium...

...Brian Bantum Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related but distinct articulations of how to understand this relationship from within the black diaspora and in particular the legacies of “mixed-race” children of the...

...Robert Bernasconi When restored to its historical context, W. E. B. Du Bois's “The Conservation of Races” emerges less as a contribution to the debate about the legitimacy of the concept of race, which is how it tends to be read today, and more as an intervention in the debate about the impact of...

... an early model for doing critical race and legal studies with critical disability studies. Although Williams does not use the term disability in her early work, I argue that her preoccupation with thinking vulnerability and rights together indicates an attempt to account for forms of disablement...

... condemnation of “race thinking” (anchored in the biological) as well as the foreclosure from that critique of “race performativity” (inscribed in the colonial). Gestated during the 1930s and 1940s in political opposition to Nazism's ideology of race, racism as a concept was also conceived Eurocentrically, as...

...Jeffrey Allen Tucker This essay starts with two questions: how does one define science fiction, and what difference does race makes to science fiction? Posing these questions together suggests that they are related and provides an opportunity to consider Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984...

... praxis that has decisively reshaped broader discussions around race and identity within the African diaspora and the very parameters of what it means to be a black intellectual. This intellectual work, I argue, is defined by its relation to a set of dispositions including a broadly post-structuralist...