Relational Formations of Race

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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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

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