Reconsidering Social Identification

Abdul R. JanMohamed is Chancellor's Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction: ‘The Political Economy of Social Division: Race, Gender, Class and Caste as Fetishized/Fetishizing Borders Abdul R. JanMohamed Part I. Theoretical Approaches 1. African-American Women and the Republics H. Spillers 2. Genre Theory, Catachresis, and the Fetish: The Case of Canada Douglass Kneale 3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture Lewis Gordon 4. What Lacan and Agamben can do for Subjectivity in the Age of Globalization: Additional Perspectives for the Concept of Hardt’s and Negri’s Multitude Myoung Ah Shin Part II: Considerations of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation 5. Transitions in Marginality: From ‘Gender’ to ‘Ethnicity’ in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand Rachael Simon Kumar 6. There Comes Papa: Sambandham with Specific Reference to the Nayar Community and its Impact on Kerala Society c. 1900–2009 A. Raghu 7. Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and Racialized Consumerism Lucia Trimbur 8. Multiple Burdens, Multiple Identities: The Complex Consciousness of African-American Women’s Movement T. Sarada 9. ‘They Can’t See Us at All’: Queering Ontogenetic Liminality through ‘Gayze’ Mashrur Houssain 10. Deliciously in Between: Transgressing Borders with Gay Best Friendship Kathryn Hummel Part III. Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing 11. Contestation of Intra-Structural Power Shifts in the Categories of Race and Caste/Class in Maya Angelou and Bama Laura Delano 12. Towards a Theoretical Proposition for the Understanding of Caste and Race: A Pedagogical Perspective Alladi Uma 13. Towards Reconstructing Caste, Class and Gender: Kalyana Rao’s Antarani Vasantam (Untouchable Spring) M. Sridhar Part IV. The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions 14. Women’s Time? Turn of the 20th Century Travel Writing on Korea Kim Young-hee 15. Political Conquests and Sexual Metaphors Marie Fernandes 16. The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class Habiba Zaman 17. Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Health Care – A Study on Social Disparities in the Swedish Healthcare Shrarah Akhvan