Edlie L. Wong
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479868001
- eISBN:
- 9781479899043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion remains one of the most lasting racial formations from Reconstruction America. Black citizenship and suffrage neither mitigated ...
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The dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion remains one of the most lasting racial formations from Reconstruction America. Black citizenship and suffrage neither mitigated racial inequality nor racially subordinated American identities, especially after Plessy v. Ferguson legalized racial segregation. The extension of nominal citizenship to black freedmen did not break the constitutive link between whiteness and citizenship, as the racial exclusion of Chinese (and later all so-called Asiatic races) from immigration and naturalization helped establish the whiteness or Americanization of new European immigrants. By the end of the century, the dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion had become an oft-referenced rhetorical figure in popular and legal discourses, structuring persuasive arguments both for and against Chinese political rights and black racial inequality. The introduction explores the cultural genealogies of this dialectical configuration linking together immigration and citizenship struggles in the long shadow of slavery and abolition.Less
The dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion remains one of the most lasting racial formations from Reconstruction America. Black citizenship and suffrage neither mitigated racial inequality nor racially subordinated American identities, especially after Plessy v. Ferguson legalized racial segregation. The extension of nominal citizenship to black freedmen did not break the constitutive link between whiteness and citizenship, as the racial exclusion of Chinese (and later all so-called Asiatic races) from immigration and naturalization helped establish the whiteness or Americanization of new European immigrants. By the end of the century, the dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion had become an oft-referenced rhetorical figure in popular and legal discourses, structuring persuasive arguments both for and against Chinese political rights and black racial inequality. The introduction explores the cultural genealogies of this dialectical configuration linking together immigration and citizenship struggles in the long shadow of slavery and abolition.
Thelma Wills Foote
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195165371
- eISBN:
- 9780199871735
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195165371.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details ...
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Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, the book reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Everyday formations of race are investigated — in slave owning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, this book argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. This history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.Less
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, the book reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Everyday formations of race are investigated — in slave owning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, this book argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. This history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.
Joseph Cheah
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199756285
- eISBN:
- 9780199918874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199756285.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the contemporary adaptation of vipassana meditation by convert Buddhists and sympathizers to the American context. It employs racial formation theory to distinguish between ...
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This chapter examines the contemporary adaptation of vipassana meditation by convert Buddhists and sympathizers to the American context. It employs racial formation theory to distinguish between cultural and racial rearticulations of Buddhist ideas, beliefs, and practices. Cultural rearticulation is an ordinary means of taking Asian religious practices and rerepresent them in terms that are recognizable and meaningful for Americans in the mainstream culture. The incorporation of Western psychology into vipassana meditation and the demystification of Buddhist practices are two prime examples of cultural rearticulation of vipassana meditation. While these adaptations can be seen as inevitable products of the transmission of Buddhism in America, they can also be considered examples of racial rearticulation if they demonstrate the ways in which Burmese vipassana meditation has been rearticulated into specific but deliberately chosen forms that help preserve the prevailing system of racial hegemony and privileges surrounding whiteness.Less
This chapter examines the contemporary adaptation of vipassana meditation by convert Buddhists and sympathizers to the American context. It employs racial formation theory to distinguish between cultural and racial rearticulations of Buddhist ideas, beliefs, and practices. Cultural rearticulation is an ordinary means of taking Asian religious practices and rerepresent them in terms that are recognizable and meaningful for Americans in the mainstream culture. The incorporation of Western psychology into vipassana meditation and the demystification of Buddhist practices are two prime examples of cultural rearticulation of vipassana meditation. While these adaptations can be seen as inevitable products of the transmission of Buddhism in America, they can also be considered examples of racial rearticulation if they demonstrate the ways in which Burmese vipassana meditation has been rearticulated into specific but deliberately chosen forms that help preserve the prevailing system of racial hegemony and privileges surrounding whiteness.
Mark C. Jerng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823277759
- eISBN:
- 9780823280544
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277759.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This introduction describes the theory and method of racial worldmaking. Critiquing the dominant approach of racial formation theory for analyzing race in the humanities and social sciences, it ...
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This introduction describes the theory and method of racial worldmaking. Critiquing the dominant approach of racial formation theory for analyzing race in the humanities and social sciences, it distinguishes an approach based on racial salience - how, when, and where we notice race. It describes the interrelations among genre and race in terms of larger theories of worldbuilding. The archive of popular fiction from 1893 to the present is established and linked to major, overlooked modes of black and Asiatic racialization. This archive challenges prominent historical accounts of race and racism in the twentieth century.Less
This introduction describes the theory and method of racial worldmaking. Critiquing the dominant approach of racial formation theory for analyzing race in the humanities and social sciences, it distinguishes an approach based on racial salience - how, when, and where we notice race. It describes the interrelations among genre and race in terms of larger theories of worldbuilding. The archive of popular fiction from 1893 to the present is established and linked to major, overlooked modes of black and Asiatic racialization. This archive challenges prominent historical accounts of race and racism in the twentieth century.
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Oneka LaBennett
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This book explores a number of questions concerning race using racial formation theory as a point of departure. In their book Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant ...
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This book explores a number of questions concerning race using racial formation theory as a point of departure. In their book Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant provide a kind of political vocabulary and shared framework through which to analyze and locate the role of race in structuring broader social formations. This book is a collection of thirteen essays written by scholars in a wide range of fields to discuss issues ranging from slavery and land ownership to labor and social movements, torture and war, sexuality and gender formation, indigeneity, colonialism, and genetics. The essays put Omi and Winant in dialogue with various scholarly developments in critical race theory and address gaps in their framework, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and global racializations.Less
This book explores a number of questions concerning race using racial formation theory as a point of departure. In their book Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant provide a kind of political vocabulary and shared framework through which to analyze and locate the role of race in structuring broader social formations. This book is a collection of thirteen essays written by scholars in a wide range of fields to discuss issues ranging from slavery and land ownership to labor and social movements, torture and war, sexuality and gender formation, indigeneity, colonialism, and genetics. The essays put Omi and Winant in dialogue with various scholarly developments in critical race theory and address gaps in their framework, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and global racializations.
Katy L. Chiles
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199313501
- eISBN:
- 9780199350728
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199313501.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature
Racial thought at the close of the eighteenth century differed radically from that of the nineteenth century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early ...
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Racial thought at the close of the eighteenth century differed radically from that of the nineteenth century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and continuously subject to change. While historians have documented aspects of eighteenth-century racial thought, Transformable Race is the first scholarly book that identifies how this thinking informs the figurative language in the literature of this crucial period. It argues that the notion of transformable race structured how early American texts portrayed the formation of racial identities. Examining figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Samson Occom, and Charles Brockden Brown, Transformable Race demonstrates how these authors used language emphasizing or questioning the potential malleability of physical features to explore the construction of racial categories. For early American studies, this project replaces prevailing critical race frameworks particular to later periods with one more fitting for early America. In critical race studies, this book illuminates how in this early literature identities take form through one’s potential to transform from one race into another. Transformable Race posits a historically specific, transformational model of critical race theory that refigures our understanding of racialization in early American literature and, in turn, offers critical race studies a new way of understanding racial formation.Less
Racial thought at the close of the eighteenth century differed radically from that of the nineteenth century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and continuously subject to change. While historians have documented aspects of eighteenth-century racial thought, Transformable Race is the first scholarly book that identifies how this thinking informs the figurative language in the literature of this crucial period. It argues that the notion of transformable race structured how early American texts portrayed the formation of racial identities. Examining figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Samson Occom, and Charles Brockden Brown, Transformable Race demonstrates how these authors used language emphasizing or questioning the potential malleability of physical features to explore the construction of racial categories. For early American studies, this project replaces prevailing critical race frameworks particular to later periods with one more fitting for early America. In critical race studies, this book illuminates how in this early literature identities take form through one’s potential to transform from one race into another. Transformable Race posits a historically specific, transformational model of critical race theory that refigures our understanding of racialization in early American literature and, in turn, offers critical race studies a new way of understanding racial formation.
Kirstie A. Dorr
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479844630
- eISBN:
- 9781479828210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844630.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Our book concludes with an exploration of national politics, structural antagonisms, and racial justice via transnational, indigenous, and women of color feminist perspectives. It also puts the ...
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Our book concludes with an exploration of national politics, structural antagonisms, and racial justice via transnational, indigenous, and women of color feminist perspectives. It also puts the black/white racial binary that has animated the rest of the book into a broader racial perspective. Kirstie A. Dorr introduces a set of case studies that signal some of the thorny polemics that complicate and confound the pursuit of racial justice as a solely nation-based project. This chapter concludes that, in our current political moment, analyses of racial discourse and practice must contend with the ways in which racial formation processes are at once geo-historically specific—that is, as temporally emplaced in particular, local, regional, and national contexts—and geo-historically relational—that is, as situated within and articulated with other geographies of racial capitalist formation and networks of cultural circulation.Less
Our book concludes with an exploration of national politics, structural antagonisms, and racial justice via transnational, indigenous, and women of color feminist perspectives. It also puts the black/white racial binary that has animated the rest of the book into a broader racial perspective. Kirstie A. Dorr introduces a set of case studies that signal some of the thorny polemics that complicate and confound the pursuit of racial justice as a solely nation-based project. This chapter concludes that, in our current political moment, analyses of racial discourse and practice must contend with the ways in which racial formation processes are at once geo-historically specific—that is, as temporally emplaced in particular, local, regional, and national contexts—and geo-historically relational—that is, as situated within and articulated with other geographies of racial capitalist formation and networks of cultural circulation.
Michael Omi and Howard Winant
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines the origins of racial formation theory, the political context from which it emerged, and the key theoretical currents that influenced Racial Formation in the United States. It ...
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This chapter examines the origins of racial formation theory, the political context from which it emerged, and the key theoretical currents that influenced Racial Formation in the United States. It begins by situating racial formation theory in the historical period from which it first emerged and applying it to racial politics today in the age of Barack Obama. It then discusses the problems that racial formation theory was initially designed to address before turning to some contemporary analyses of changing U.S. racial dynamics and their implications, along with new patterns of race and racism, the ongoing instability and changing meaning of the race concept, and issues such as as “colorblind” racial ideology and the role of race in electoral politics. The chapter also explores various “post-racial scenarios” that the United States might confront in the near future, as well as the tensions and possibilities authorized by the crisis of colorblindness. Finally, it raises a number of questions, such as those relating to race consciousness and a racial justice-oriented social policy.Less
This chapter examines the origins of racial formation theory, the political context from which it emerged, and the key theoretical currents that influenced Racial Formation in the United States. It begins by situating racial formation theory in the historical period from which it first emerged and applying it to racial politics today in the age of Barack Obama. It then discusses the problems that racial formation theory was initially designed to address before turning to some contemporary analyses of changing U.S. racial dynamics and their implications, along with new patterns of race and racism, the ongoing instability and changing meaning of the race concept, and issues such as as “colorblind” racial ideology and the role of race in electoral politics. The chapter also explores various “post-racial scenarios” that the United States might confront in the near future, as well as the tensions and possibilities authorized by the crisis of colorblindness. Finally, it raises a number of questions, such as those relating to race consciousness and a racial justice-oriented social policy.
Nikhil Singh
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial ...
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This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial formation theory alongside DuBois to conceptualize race as less “precipitated out of social relations” than “remade as social relation,” in order to expose race as reconstituted in the practices of permanent war and as deeply embedded in “the uniquely violent foundations of Western modernity.” It also deconstructs racist depictions of Barack Obama and highlights the complex and troubling contradictions that his presidency engenders, not only for a white hegemony founded on “post-racial” politics but also for sovereign violence legitimized under the global umbrella of the expanded U.S. national security state.Less
This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial formation theory alongside DuBois to conceptualize race as less “precipitated out of social relations” than “remade as social relation,” in order to expose race as reconstituted in the practices of permanent war and as deeply embedded in “the uniquely violent foundations of Western modernity.” It also deconstructs racist depictions of Barack Obama and highlights the complex and troubling contradictions that his presidency engenders, not only for a white hegemony founded on “post-racial” politics but also for sovereign violence legitimized under the global umbrella of the expanded U.S. national security state.
Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. This book, arriving twenty-five years after the publication ...
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Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. This book, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The chapters explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth-century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant's racial formation theory and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century.Less
Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential and widely read books about race. This book, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The chapters explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth-century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant's racial formation theory and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century.
Priya Kandaswamy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines issues of gender and sexuality within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theoretical framework. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality alongside racial ...
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This chapter examines issues of gender and sexuality within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theoretical framework. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality alongside racial formation theory, it discusses the unexplored opportunities in Racial Formation in the United States to theorize gender and race as mutually constitutive. It juxtaposes Racial Formation's profound effect on the field of ethnic studies with its relatively obscure place within women's and gender studies, with particular emphasis on why theories that address the historical production of race and gender have not adequately engaged with one another. The chapter also looks at the alleged gender deviance of black women on welfare and argues that race, gender, class, and sexuality are intrinsically conjoined.Less
This chapter examines issues of gender and sexuality within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theoretical framework. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality alongside racial formation theory, it discusses the unexplored opportunities in Racial Formation in the United States to theorize gender and race as mutually constitutive. It juxtaposes Racial Formation's profound effect on the field of ethnic studies with its relatively obscure place within women's and gender studies, with particular emphasis on why theories that address the historical production of race and gender have not adequately engaged with one another. The chapter also looks at the alleged gender deviance of black women on welfare and argues that race, gender, class, and sexuality are intrinsically conjoined.
Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how the end of affirmative action in California functions as a racial project. Using Michael Omi and Howard Winant's conceptualization of racial projects, it considers the ways ...
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This chapter examines how the end of affirmative action in California functions as a racial project. Using Michael Omi and Howard Winant's conceptualization of racial projects, it considers the ways that the principles of “race neutrality” and “race preferences” operate in debates over “anti-preference” initiatives like Proposition 209. It shows how reinterpretation of the meaning of race through veneration of colorblindness led to the redistribution of resources along racial lines. It demonstrates this process through an inventive analysis of hypothetical personal statements written by Barack Obama and Clarence Thomas in their law school applications, arguing that bans on the explicit use of race in law school admissions do not abolish but reorder racial preferences. The chapter also suggests that racial identity can be expressed in different ways and that racial formation occurs not only at the level of social or political structure, but also at the level of identity performance.Less
This chapter examines how the end of affirmative action in California functions as a racial project. Using Michael Omi and Howard Winant's conceptualization of racial projects, it considers the ways that the principles of “race neutrality” and “race preferences” operate in debates over “anti-preference” initiatives like Proposition 209. It shows how reinterpretation of the meaning of race through veneration of colorblindness led to the redistribution of resources along racial lines. It demonstrates this process through an inventive analysis of hypothetical personal statements written by Barack Obama and Clarence Thomas in their law school applications, arguing that bans on the explicit use of race in law school admissions do not abolish but reorder racial preferences. The chapter also suggests that racial identity can be expressed in different ways and that racial formation occurs not only at the level of social or political structure, but also at the level of identity performance.
Jason Oliver Chang
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040863
- eISBN:
- 9780252099359
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040863.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter introduces the subject of the Chinese presence in Mexico through their distorted representation in a state museum. The history of Chinese Mexicans provides new ways to analyze the ...
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This chapter introduces the subject of the Chinese presence in Mexico through their distorted representation in a state museum. The history of Chinese Mexicans provides new ways to analyze the formation of mestizo national identity in Revolutionary Mexico. This chapter introduces the significance of the 1917 constitution by linking its legal definition of the government’s obligation to protect the population with the historical development of racial domination. The methodological approach of an Asian Americanist critique is explored to show why attention to the discursive and ideological construction of racialized Asian difference is important to conceptions of the Mexican national state. In showing the centrality of race in the Mexican governance, the chapter lays out a comparative racial formation approach that examines the role of anti-Chinese politics in the reformulation of citizenship, state power, and national identity after the 1910 revolution.Less
This chapter introduces the subject of the Chinese presence in Mexico through their distorted representation in a state museum. The history of Chinese Mexicans provides new ways to analyze the formation of mestizo national identity in Revolutionary Mexico. This chapter introduces the significance of the 1917 constitution by linking its legal definition of the government’s obligation to protect the population with the historical development of racial domination. The methodological approach of an Asian Americanist critique is explored to show why attention to the discursive and ideological construction of racialized Asian difference is important to conceptions of the Mexican national state. In showing the centrality of race in the Mexican governance, the chapter lays out a comparative racial formation approach that examines the role of anti-Chinese politics in the reformulation of citizenship, state power, and national identity after the 1910 revolution.
Jemima Pierre
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226923024
- eISBN:
- 9780226923048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226923048.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within which Ghanaian urban communities and identities are constituted. It explains the significance of establishing the fact of the occurrence of racialization in purportedly unusual or unsuspecting places. It also provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the historical forces and contemporary practices that shape the terrain of struggle and the prevailing racial order within which Ghanaian urban communities and identities are constituted. It explains the significance of establishing the fact of the occurrence of racialization in purportedly unusual or unsuspecting places. It also provides an overview of the subsequent chapters.
Michelle A. McKinley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines the complex logics and political forces underlying racial formation in early colonial Lima. It considers the theme of “racial democracy” and its associated racial projects of ...
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This chapter examines the complex logics and political forces underlying racial formation in early colonial Lima. It considers the theme of “racial democracy” and its associated racial projects of mestizaje, indigenismo, and contemporary multiculturalism in Latin America in order to highlight the constitutive nature of “race” itself in Iberian thought as reflected in the legal recognition of mestizo categories. It begins by historically situating the twentieth-century Latin American racial project of mestizaje and twenty-first-century multiculturalism within their origins in medieval hierarchies of blood mixing. It then discusses the tensions that surround comparative conversations about race and how ideas of blood purity were worked out in a slaveholding, colonial milieu in which extensive race mixing occurred. It also charts the development of categories of race and caste in seventeenth-century Lima as well as the cultural zoning of black (Afro-Latino) and indigenous (indio) that reemerged in the contemporary discourse of Latin American multiculturalism.Less
This chapter examines the complex logics and political forces underlying racial formation in early colonial Lima. It considers the theme of “racial democracy” and its associated racial projects of mestizaje, indigenismo, and contemporary multiculturalism in Latin America in order to highlight the constitutive nature of “race” itself in Iberian thought as reflected in the legal recognition of mestizo categories. It begins by historically situating the twentieth-century Latin American racial project of mestizaje and twenty-first-century multiculturalism within their origins in medieval hierarchies of blood mixing. It then discusses the tensions that surround comparative conversations about race and how ideas of blood purity were worked out in a slaveholding, colonial milieu in which extensive race mixing occurred. It also charts the development of categories of race and caste in seventeenth-century Lima as well as the cultural zoning of black (Afro-Latino) and indigenous (indio) that reemerged in the contemporary discourse of Latin American multiculturalism.
Mary P. Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830628
- eISBN:
- 9781469606057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807876688_ryan.6
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter discusses the role of sexuality and related gender practices in constructing racial boundaries in the United States. It describes the role of gender in the process of racial formation ...
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This chapter discusses the role of sexuality and related gender practices in constructing racial boundaries in the United States. It describes the role of gender in the process of racial formation and the slave labor force, arguing that the male gender was placed marginally above the female on the social hierarchy of the slave community. This is followed by a discussion of the reconstruction of race and gender following the Civil War. The chapter also examines the role of sex and gender in racial subordination.Less
This chapter discusses the role of sexuality and related gender practices in constructing racial boundaries in the United States. It describes the role of gender in the process of racial formation and the slave labor force, arguing that the male gender was placed marginally above the female on the social hierarchy of the slave community. This is followed by a discussion of the reconstruction of race and gender following the Civil War. The chapter also examines the role of sex and gender in racial subordination.
Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American ...
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This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.Less
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Wendy Cheng
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679812
- eISBN:
- 9781452948829
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679812.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
“Theorizing Regional Racial Formation,” gives a brief overview of the history and contemporary importance of the West San Gabriel Valley, and lays out the key themes and stakes of the book. It also ...
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“Theorizing Regional Racial Formation,” gives a brief overview of the history and contemporary importance of the West San Gabriel Valley, and lays out the key themes and stakes of the book. It also elaborates the theoretical and multidisciplinary underpinnings of a regional racial formation framework.Less
“Theorizing Regional Racial Formation,” gives a brief overview of the history and contemporary importance of the West San Gabriel Valley, and lays out the key themes and stakes of the book. It also elaborates the theoretical and multidisciplinary underpinnings of a regional racial formation framework.
Rosa Linda Fregoso
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229976
- eISBN:
- 9780520937284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229976.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter is concerned with the “Mexicanist presence” found in the narratives of silent moviemakers. It investigates the interweaving of racial formation processes in cinema in the history of ...
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This chapter is concerned with the “Mexicanist presence” found in the narratives of silent moviemakers. It investigates the interweaving of racial formation processes in cinema in the history of nation building. It also analyzes how a group of films can contribute to a cultural memory of denial by focusing on events where Mexicana visibility figures prominently in questions of national identity. The chapter determines that the Western films set in the “frontier” best capture the anxieties of the nation about the Mexicanist presence.Less
This chapter is concerned with the “Mexicanist presence” found in the narratives of silent moviemakers. It investigates the interweaving of racial formation processes in cinema in the history of nation building. It also analyzes how a group of films can contribute to a cultural memory of denial by focusing on events where Mexicana visibility figures prominently in questions of national identity. The chapter determines that the Western films set in the “frontier” best capture the anxieties of the nation about the Mexicanist presence.
Tomás Almaguer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how racial formation during the colonial era shapes patterns of racialization between and among Latino ethnic groups today. It first discusses the racialization of Latinos in ...
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This chapter examines how racial formation during the colonial era shapes patterns of racialization between and among Latino ethnic groups today. It first discusses the racialization of Latinos in the United States before assessing the conundrums of racial identity among the Latino population. It then considers the changing meaning of race and racial categories for Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in relation to categories of gender, sexuality, and indigeneity. It argues that while Latinos do not fit neatly within American racial categories, they often “have far less trouble racializing one another,” as evidenced in the pejorative stereotyping that Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans often apply to each other's racial identities.Less
This chapter examines how racial formation during the colonial era shapes patterns of racialization between and among Latino ethnic groups today. It first discusses the racialization of Latinos in the United States before assessing the conundrums of racial identity among the Latino population. It then considers the changing meaning of race and racial categories for Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in relation to categories of gender, sexuality, and indigeneity. It argues that while Latinos do not fit neatly within American racial categories, they often “have far less trouble racializing one another,” as evidenced in the pejorative stereotyping that Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans often apply to each other's racial identities.
