Racial formation in the twenty-first century / edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, Laura Pulido.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gendering racial formation / Priya Kandaswamy -- On the specificities of racial formation: gender and sexuality in historiographies of race / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The transivity of race and the challenge of the imagination / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- Indigeneity, settler colonialism, white supremacy / Andrea Smith -- The importance of being Asian: growers, the united farm workers, and the rise of colorblindness / Matthew Garcia -- The unbearable lightness of being (black): legal and cultural constructions of race and nation in colonial Latin America / Michelle A. McKinley -- Race, racialization, and Latino populations in the United States / Tomás Almaguer -- Kill the messengers: can we achieve racial justice without mentioning race? / Gary Delgado -- The new racial preferences: rethinking racial projects / Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris -- "We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their head off": Abu Ghraib revisited / Sherene H. Razack -- The "war on terror" as racial crisis: homeland security, Obama, and racial (trans)formations / Nicholas De Genova -- Racial formation in an age of permanent war / Nikhil Singh -- Racial formation rules: continuity, instability, and change / Michael Omi and Howard Winant.

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"Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The contributors explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant's influential theory of racial formation and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher.

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