Preface / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective ix
Introduction: A Sightline / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective 1
I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights 17
1. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification / Shana L. Redmond 19
2. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary / John D. Marquez 43
3. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalizaton / JoÃo H. Costa Vargas 63
4. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State / Lindsey Schneider 92
5. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization / Jin Haritaworn 106
6. Critical Contradictions: A Conversion among Glen Coulthard, Dylan RodrÍguez, and Sarita Echavez See / Moderated by Sarita Echavez See 138
II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University 159
7. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education / Long T. Bui 161
8. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means / Nada Elia 175
9. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University / Tania Das Gupta 190
10. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity / David Lloyd 203
11. Subjucated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing / Dan Berger 215
III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital 229
12. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery / Nirmala Erevelles 231
13. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification / Bo Leungsuraswat 252
14. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People / Andrew uzendoski 269
15. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag / Stephanie Nohelani Teves 281
IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity 201
16. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention / David M. HernÁndez 303
17. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 / Jason Luna Gavilan 326
18. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life / Gilberto Rosas 344
19. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain / Ronak K. Kapadai 360
20. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above / Keith P. Feldman 376
V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures
21. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire / Neferti X. M. Tadiar 395
22. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 416
23. CÉsaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres / 435
24. Checkered Choices, Political Associations: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La 24. AsociaciÓn Nacional MÉxico-Americana / Laura Pulido 463
25. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life / Alexander G. Weheliye 477
Bibliography 495
Contributors 535
Index
