Critical Ethnic Studies : A Reader

"Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to promote open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding the field's expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns. Covering a wide range of topics, from multiculturalism, the neoliberal university, and the exploitation of bodies to empire, the militarized security state, and decolonialism, these twenty-five essays call attention to the urgency of articulating a Critical Ethnic Studies for the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description The multicultural nation and the violence of liberal rights -- As though it were our own?: against a politics of identification / Shana L. Redmond -- Juan Crow: progressive mutations of the Black-White binary / John D. Marquez -- Can the line move? Antiblackness and a diasporic logic of forced social epidermalization / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- (Re)producing the nation: treaty rights, gay marriage, and the settler state / Lindsey Schneider -- Hateful travels: queering ethnic studies in a context of criminalization, pathologization, and globalization / Jin Haritaworn -- Critical contradictions: a conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See / moderated by Sarita Echavez See -- Critical ethnic studies projects meet the neoliberal university -- A better life? Asian Americans and the necropolitics of higher education / Long T. Bui -- Notes from a member of the demographic threat: this is what we are all Palestinians really means / Nada Elia -- Restructuring, resistance, and knowledge production on campus: the story of the department of equity studies at York University / Tania Das Gupta -- The goal of the revolution is the elimination of anxiety: on the right to abundance in a time of artificial scarcity / David Lloyd -- Subjugated knowledges: activism, scholarship, and ethnic studies ways of knowing / Dan Berger -- The body and the dispensations of racial capital -- Becoming disabled/becoming Black: cripping critical ethnic studies from the periphery / Nirmala Erevelles -- Arts and crafts, elsewhere and home, mama & me: defying transnormativity through bobby Cheung's creative modalities of resignification / Bo Luengsuraswat -- Indra Sinha's melancholic citizenship: marking the violence of uneven development in animal's people / Andrew Uzendoski -- Cocoa Chandelier's confessional: Kanaka Maoli performance and Aloha in drag / Stephanie Nohelani Teves -- Militarism, empire, and war: the security state and states of insecurity -- Surrogates and subcontractors: flexibility and obscurity in u.s. immigrant detention / David M. Hernández -- Of "mates" and men: the comparative racial politics of Filipino naval enlistment, circa 1941-1943 / Jason Luna Gavilan -- The thickening borderlands: bastard mestiz@s, "illegal" possibilities, and globalizing migrant life / Gilberto Rosas -- Up in the air and on the skin: drone warfare and the queer calculus of pain / Ronak K. Kapadia -- Empire's verticality: the af-pak frontier, visual culture, and racialization from above / Keith P. Feldman -- Fugitive socialities and alternative futures -- Decolonization, "race", ́ and remaindered life under empire / Neferti X.M. Tadiar -- Critical ethnic studies, identity politics, and the right-left convergence / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- Cesaire's gift and the decolonial turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres -- Checkered Choices, Political Associations: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La 24. Asociación Nacional México-Americana / Laura Pulido -- Racializing biopolitics and bare life / Alexander G. Weheliye Building on the possibilities opened up by Ethnic Studies, this volume promotes open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding Critical Ethnic Studies' expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns on topics ranging from multiculturalism and the neoliberal university to the militarized security state. Illustrates the classic game of game theory Prisoner's dilemma, by asking the user to play against 5 fictitious players, one of whom uses tit-for-tat strategy recommended by Robert Axelrod in his book, The Evolution of Cooperation