Critical Ethnic Studies

The members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective are Nada Elia, Independent Scholar; David M. HernÁndez, Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College; Jodi Kim, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside; Shana L. Redmond, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California; Dylan RodrÍguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside; and Sarita Echavez See, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

• Preface / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective  ixIntroduction: A Sightline / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective  1I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights  171. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification / Shana L. Redmond  192. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary / John D. Marquez  433. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalizaton / JoÃo H. Costa Vargas  634. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State / Lindsey Schneider  925. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization / Jin Haritaworn  1066. Critical Contradictions: A Conversion among Glen Coulthard, Dylan RodrÍguez, and Sarita Echavez See / Moderated by Sarita Echavez See  138II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University  1597. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education / Long T. Bui  1618. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means / Nada Elia  1759. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University / Tania Das Gupta  19010. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity / David Lloyd  20311. Subjucated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing / Dan Berger  215III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital  22912. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery / Nirmala Erevelles  23113. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification / Bo Leungsuraswat  25214. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People / Andrew uzendoski  26915. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag / Stephanie Nohelani Teves  281IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity  20116. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention / David M. HernÁndez  30317. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 / Jason Luna Gavilan  32618. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life / Gilberto Rosas  34419. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain / Ronak K. Kapadai  36020. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above / Keith P. Feldman  376V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures21. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire / Neferti X. M. Tadiar  39522. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam  41623. CÉsaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres / 43524. Checkered Choices, Political Associations: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La 24. AsociaciÓn Nacional MÉxico-Americana / Laura Pulido  46325. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life / Alexander G. Weheliye  477Bibliography  495Contributors  535Index

"This ambitious new collection from the Critical Ethnic Studies Association successfully stakes out important intellectual and political stances in the field of ethnic studies." - N. Barnd (Choice) "The ground-breaking aspect of this volume is that it underscores the urgency to train new scholars and thinkers that can help reformulate and rethink complex issues such as racism, ethnicity and hate crimes, all characteristics of the zeitgeist." - Natascha Adama (Ethnic and Racial Studies)