Global Raciality

Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and affiliated faculty within the Center for Race and Gender; the Center for South Asia Studies; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies, and affiliated faculty within the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program and the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. Howard Winant is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Asian American Studies departments. He founded and directed the University of California Center for New Racial Studies.

Preface New Racial Studies and Global Raciality Introduction Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality Part I. Empire. 1. Imagining New Worlds: Anti-Indianism and the Roots of United States Exceptionalism. 2. A Burmese Wonderland: Race and Corporate Governmentality in British Burma, 1906-1930. 3. Comparative Raciality: Erasure and Hypervisibility of Asian and Afro Mexicans. Part II. Postcoloniality. 4. Racial Property and Radical Memory: Epilogues to the Haitian Revolution. 5. The Incursion and Its Hauntings: Modernity, Discipline, and Compromised Citizenship. 6. Palestine in Black and White: White Settler-Colonialism and the Specter of Transnational Black Power. Part III. Decoloniality. 7. Modern Skins: Exploring Racialized Representations in Post-Liberalization India. 8. Queers of Color and (De)Colonial Spaces in Europe. 9. Black Buddhist: The Visual and Material Cultures of the Dalit Movement and the Black Panther Party. 10. Solidarity Protests on US Security Policy: Interrupting Racial and Imperial Affects Through Ritual Mourning. Afterword Race and Empire Today