Full Description
In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times. They address questions such as: What can a new agenda for the global historical sociology of race and racism lend to the existing scholarship? What would it mean to recover the globally constituted forces that have shaped the production of racial categories and dynamics of racial oppression? How can we understand domestic racial policies, not only through their effects on local populations, but also as products of wider global and transnational forces, knowledges, and transformations?
In short, what would re-historicizing the history of racism mean for sociological theorizing on the subject in the 21st century? Drawing on empirical analyses of the relations, mechanisms, machinations, and structures of racial supremacies, this volume generates productive avenues for future thinking on race and racism. It sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in sociological questions of race, imperial forms, and the construction of modernity.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism; Katrina Quisumbing King and Alexandre I.R. White
Chapter 2. Empire and Racialization: Reinterpreting Japan's Pan-Asianism from a Du Boisian Perspective; Kazuko Suzuki
Chapter 3. Race and the Diplomatic Bureaucracy: State-Building in Nineteenth-Century Bolivia as a Response to Transnational Racialization Threats; Marcelo Bohrt
Chapter 4. Abolition as a Racial Project: Erasures and Racializations on the Borders of British India; Mishal Khan
Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Resistance to State Symbolic Power in Rwanda Since the 1994 Genocide; Aliza Luft and Susan Thomson
Chapter 6. Seeing African and Indigenous States and Societies: Decolonizing and De-grouping Race Scholarships' Narratives of Conquest and Enslavement in the Early Modern Atlantic World; Luisa Farah Schwartzman
Chapter 7. On the Ecomateriality of Racial-Colonial Domination in Rhode Island; Michael Murphy
Chapter 8. Colonial and Decolonial Resignification: U.S. Empire-State Sovereignty in Hawai'i; Heidi Nicholls
Chapter 9. The Ghost in the Algorithm: Racial Colonial Capitalism and the Digital Age; Ricarda Hammer and Tina Park
