Full Description
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as a dynamic and interactive process; group-based racial constructions are formed not only in relation to whiteness, but also in relation to other devalued and marginalized groups. The chapters offer explicit guides to understanding race as relational across all disciplines, time periods, regions, and social groups. By studying race relationally, and through a shared context of meaning and power, students will draw connections among subordinated groups and will better comprehend the logic that underpins the forms of inclusion and dispossession such groups face. As the United States shifts toward a minority-majority nation, Relational Formations of Race offers crucial tools for understanding today's shifting race dynamics.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Relational Consciousness of Race
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Natalia Molina
PART ONE THEORIZING RACE RELATIONALLY
1 • Race as a Relational Theory: A Roundtable Discussion
George Lipsitz, George J. Sánchez, and Kelly Lytle Hernández, with Daniel Martinez HoSang and Natalia Molina
2 • Examining Chicana/o History through a Relational Lens
Natalia Molina
3 • Entangled Dispossessions: Race and Colonialism in the Historical Present
Alyosha Goldstein
PART TWO RELATIONAL RESEARCH AS POLITICAL PRACTICE
4 • The Relational Revolutions of Antiracist Formations
Roderick Ferguson
5 • How Palestine Became Important to American Indian Studies
Steven Salaita
6 • Uncle Tom Was an Indian: Tracing the Red in Black Slavery
Tiya Miles
7 • "The Whatever That Survived": Thinking Racialized Immigration through Blackness and the Afterlife of Slavery
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
PART THREE
HISTORICAL FRAMEWORKS
8 • Indians and Negroes in Spite of Themselves: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Catherine S. Ramírez
9 • Becoming "Hawaiian": A Relational Racialization of Japanese American Soldiers from Hawai'i during World War II in the U.S. South
Jeffrey T. Yamashita
10 • Vietnamese Refugees and Mexican Immigrants: Southern Regional Racialization in the Late Twentieth Century
Perla M. Guerrero
11 • Green, Blue, Yellow, and Red: The Relational Racialization of Space in the Stockton Metropolitan Area
Raoul S. Liévanos
PART FOUR
RELATIONAL FRAMEWORKS IN CONTEMPORARY POLICY
12 • Border-Hopping Mexicans, Law-Abiding Asians, and Racialized Illegality: Analyzing Undocumented College Students' Experiences through a Relational Lens
Laura E. Enriquez
13 • Racial Arithmetic: Ethnoracial Politics in a Relational Key
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
14 • The Relational Positioning of Arab and Muslim Americans in Post-9/11 Racial Politics
Julie Lee Merseth
Further Reading
Contributors
Index
