Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice - Softcover

Molina, Natalia; Gutiérrez, Ramón A.; HoSang, Daniel Martinez

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ISBN 10: 0520299671 ISBN 13: 9780520299672

Verlag: University of California Press, 2019

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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.
 

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Natalia Molina is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of two award winning books, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940.

Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.
 
Ramón A. Gutiérrez is Professor of American History at the University of Chicago.

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“These fine scholars argue persuasively that the next new direction in the field of Ethnic Studies should be to study race relationally: an old idea made new again by building on the robust scholarship produced in comparative and transnational ethnic studies during the past three decades or so.”—Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, Brown University

“Studying race as a relational formation is more than powerful—it is necessary. This important gathering of essays challenges even the most radical thinkers on race to repattern the ways we understand social justice, human rights, and struggles that form in mutual action toward a common good. Together, these essays refuse the dominance of whiteness in studies and enactments of racial relations, generating new theories and conversations that reveal historic and powerful connections among freedom seekers across the globe.”—Gaye Theresa Johnson, author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity and coeditor of Futures of Black Radicalism

“Studying Race Relationally demonstrates beautifully the insights produced by examining systems of race alongside each other. This generative, exciting volume offers essential contributions to critical Ethnic Studies and American Studies.”—Emily K. Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left

“What if we could think about race and racism differently? Go beyond thinking about race mainly in terms of whiteness and its ‘others’? Dispense with fatuous denunciatoions of ‘groupism’ and recognize the centrality of racialization in the construction of our world? In Relational Formations of Race, some of our most profound race theorists do just that. They explore how racial identities and racialized groups interact and overlap. They show how racial formation involves permanent conflict with the U.S. empire-state and simultaneously constitutes that state. Exclusion and inclusion; conquest and social control; struggles over racialized labor, gender, migration, and, indeed, U.S. imperialism and ‘nation-building’—all are reconceptualized here. Our understanding of race and racism is both deepened and broadened by this exceptional book, which will certainly become a central text across the disciplines. A tour de force and a must for course adoption!”—Howard Winant, coauthor of Racial Formation in the United States

“This is a must-read for everyone in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Africana Studies, and, indeed, for anyone who wants to understand how and why difference and disadvantage are created and perpetuated, and how we are all, in some way, complicit in this creation and perpetuation. It is destined to become a big-hearted model of scholarly praxis on race, a core text for the next generation of young scholars who recognize that activism and deeper understanding are joined at the hip.”—Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

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&;These fine scholars argue persuasively that the next new direction in the field of Ethnic Studies should be to study race relationally: an old idea made new again by building on the robust scholarship produced in comparative and transnational ethnic studies during the past three decades or so.&;&;Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, Brown University

&;Studying race as a relational formation is more than powerful&;it is necessary. This important gathering of essays challenges even the most radical thinkers on race to repattern the ways we understand social justice, human rights, and struggles that form in mutual action toward a common good. Together, these essays refuse the dominance of whiteness in studies and enactments of racial relations, generating new theories and conversations that reveal historic and powerful connections among freedom seekers across the globe.&;&;Gaye Theresa Johnson, author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity and coeditor of Futures of Black Radicalism

&;Studying Race Relationally demonstrates beautifully the insights produced by examining systems of race alongside each other. This generative, exciting volume offers essential contributions to critical Ethnic Studies and American Studies.&;&;Emily K. Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left

&;What if we could think about race and racism differently? Go beyond thinking about race mainly in terms of whiteness and its &;others&;? Dispense with fatuous denunciatoions of &;groupism&; and recognize the centrality of racialization in the construction of our world? In Relational Formations of Race, some of our most profound race theorists do just that. They explore how racial identities and racialized groups interact and overlap. They show how racial formation involves permanent conflict with the U.S. empire-state and simultaneously constitutes that state. Exclusion and inclusion; conquest and social control; struggles over racialized labor, gender, migration, and, indeed, U.S. imperialism and &;nation-building&;&;all are reconceptualized here. Our understanding of race and racism is both deepened and broadened by this exceptional book, which will certainly become a central text across the disciplines. A tour de force and a must for course adoption!&;&;Howard Winant, coauthor of Racial Formation in the United States

&;This is a must-read for everyone in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Africana Studies, and, indeed, for anyone who wants to understand how and why difference and disadvantage are created and perpetuated, and how we are all, in some way, complicit in this creation and perpetuation. It is destined to become a big-hearted model of scholarly praxis on race, a core text for the next generation of young scholars who recognize that activism and deeper understanding are joined at the hip.&;&;Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe

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Relational Formations of Race

Theory, Method, And Practice

By Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez Hosang, Ramón A. Gutiérrez

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Copyright © 2019 The Regents of the University of California
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-520-29967-2

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, 

CHAPTER 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

This roundtable features three scholars who have produced some of the most groundbreaking and generative work on the relational study of race: George Lipsitz, George Sánchez, and Kelly Lytle Hernández. Recorded at the University of Southern California in December 2016, their wide-ranging discussion addresses the particular role of Los Angeles and California in relational studies of race; the challenges of teaching and research using a relational framework; and the importance of such frameworks beyond the academy.

George Sánchez, author of the award-winning Becoming Mexican American (Oxford University Press, 1993), has spent more than two decades chronicling the complex multiracial relationships in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles through an array of research, teaching, and public impact projects, including collaborations with several local museums and history projects.

George Lipsitz has authored dozens of articles and books that incorporate a relational framework, including many works that address the particular role of music, the arts, and other forms of cultural production in this process. He is also the editor of Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, one of the first scholarly journals to explicitly foreground a relational framework.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is the author of the celebrated Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010) and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging, 1771–1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Both works exemplify the most far-reaching and sophisticated insights that can be produced through relational studies of race.

DANIEL MARTINEZ HOSANG AND NATALIA MOLINA: Can you describe for us how your teaching and research came to address and incorporate relational frameworks of race?

GEORGE LIPSITZ: I don't think there are many people who set out to say, "I am going to do a comparative and relational ethnic studies project." I think they found it in the complexity of the world. And I think that had two ramifications. One, it meant that they had to break with this notion of a one-at-a-time relationship with whiteness for each aggrieved group. We didn't know until we were doing the comparative and relational work that there was an uninterrogated privileging of whiteness that had been there — the issue was [always] "How does each group deal with the white center?" not "How are polylateral relations among aggrieved communities of color formulated?" There is this line in a Chester Himes article in the Crisis. He was writing about the Zoot Suit Riots and the Japanese internment. And he basically said, "I came to Los Angeles, and it hurt me worse than Cleveland. And it hurt me racially worse than any place I have seen. But until I saw the Zoot Suiters getting attacked, I secretly thought it was something wrong with us. When I saw what they were doing to the Japanese, saw what they were doing to the Mexicans, I realized it was them, not us. And rather than apologizing or explaining ourselves, we had to basically see that there is a system at work there." Himes reiterated this line of thought in his 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, where he describes "little Riki Oyana" singing "God Bless America" and being hauled off to the internment center at the Santa Anita racetrack the next day. I think most of the work that will come to the fore of the studies we talk about comes from the ways in which race becomes transposed into mass incarceration, environmental racism, descriptions of nonnormative sexual and gender behavior, and low-wage labor. None of these issues can be solved one group at a time. So part of the difficulty of [most] racial studies is that you take the tort model of law and say, "There but for race, people would have been OK." But we know that race is intersectional. It's the life of the party; it never goes anywhere alone. Because race has to do with differential citizenship, lesser citizenship, premature death, disproportionate exposure to violence, it makes you look at more than one group. But I also think it's important for us not to privilege one way of looking at things and say we always want things to be comparative and relational. There is a time to [look at things] together; there is a time to [look at them] apart. There are things that are enabled by looking comparatively and relationally, and there are things that are inhibited by it.

GEORGE SÁNCHEZ: I didn't enter looking for relational approaches, but I was drawn there by the consistency of what I kept finding. And so my first book, Becoming Mexican American, though now people look at it and they think, "Oh, relational this, relational that." I didn't see that at all. To me, [getting to the idea of the relational] was a learning process of having...

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520299671
• ISBN 13: 9780520299672
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380
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