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Introduction: the contours of race and media / Jason A. Smith and Bhoomi K. Thakore -- Structures and contention. Failure to communicate: the critical information needs debate / Randy D. Abreu -- Courting minority commodity audiences: bounce TV in the age of media conglomeration / Leah P. Hunter and Jennifer M. Proffitt -- New media & new possibilities: the online engagement of young black activists / Nathan Jamel Riemer -- Navigating contention behind the scenes. Black, Asian, and Latino directors in Hollywood / Maryann Erigha -- Is Carlos Mencia a white wetback?: mediating the (e)racing of U.S. Central Americans in the Latino imaginary / Maritza Cárdenas -- Sofía Vergara: on media representations of Latinidad / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz -- Color-blind racism in media: Mindy Kaling as an "honorary white?" / Sheena Sood -- Visual representations of contention. Drifting for whiteness: Hollywood representations of Asian Americans in the 21st century / John D. Foster -- Consuming black pain: reading racial ideology in cultural appetite for 12 years a slave / Jennifer C. Mueller and Rula Issa -- Racial ideology in electronic dance music festival promotional videos / David l. Brunsma, Nathaniel G. Chapman, and J. Slade Lellock -- Perpetuating contentious ideologies. The rise of the racial reviewer, 1990-2004 / Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Devon R. Goss, and Matthew W. Hughey -- Successful immigrants in the news: racialization, color-blind racism, and the American Dream / Jorge X. Ballinas -- Black studies in prime time: racial expertise and the framing of cultural authority / Seneca Vaught -- The good, the bad, and the ugly Muslim: media representations of "Islamic punk" through a postcolonial lens / Saif Shahin -- Conclusion looking ahead / Bhoomi K. Thakore and Jason A. Smith

"This path-breaking anthology brings theories of racialization, the body, and biopower, into conversation with critical science and technology studies perspectives and sets this conversation in the context of the shifting, emergent geographies of globalization. These three threads of bodies, territories, and technologies weave together a diverse, wide-ranging, and highly original set of essays. The contributors offer provocative analyses of contemporary phenomena ranging from access to HIV drugs, changing succession rules of the British monarchy, drones, and Australian aboriginal resistance struggles."--Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies. Security, Race, Biopower makes innovative contributions to multiple disciplines and identifies emerging social and political concerns with security, race and risk that invite further scholarly attention. It will be of great interest to scholars and students in disciplinary fields including Media and Communication, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science and Sociology

Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. This book studies the demographic and environmental transformation of the region: the racialization of urban spaces and its contestations, establishment of hill sanatoria, expansion of tea cultivation, labour emigration and the paternalistic modes of healthcare in the plantation. It examines how the threat of epidemics and riots informed the conflictual relationship between the plantations with the adjacent agricultural villages and district towns. It reveals how Tropical Medicine was practised in its 'field'; researches in malaria, hookworm, dysentery, cholera and leprosy were informed by investigations here, and the exigencies of the colonial state, private entrepreneurship, and municipal governance subverted their implementation. Contagion and Enclaves establishes the vital link between medicine, the political economy and the social history of colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy, they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other enclaves, with the global economy and international medical research

1. The paradox of political Islam / Shahram Akbarzadeh -- 2. Sayyid Qutb : founder of radical Islamic political ideology / Ahmad S. Moussalli -- 3. Three dimensions of the emerging political philosophy of Islam / M.A. Muqtedar Khan -- 4. Modernity and Islamic religious consciousness / Raja Bahlul -- 5. The Muslim Brotherhood / Barbara Zollner -- 6. Hamas : between pragmatism and radicalism / Mohammed M. Hafez and Marc-Andre Walther -- 7. Hizbullah in Lebanon / Lara Deeb -- 8. Hizb ut-Tahrir / Mohamed Nawab bin Mohamed Osman -- 9. Islamic radicalism in a democratizing Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- 10. Islamism reaches Central Asia / Shahram Akbarzadeh -- 11. Islamism in Turkey / Gareth Jenkins -- 12. The institutionalisation of political Islam in Iran / Rebecca Barlow and Shahram Akbarzadeh -- 13. Political thinking on Islam and democracy : the case of Iran / Ali M. Pedram -- 14. Islam, identity and discourses in Pakistan / Samina Yasmeen -- 15. Reforming the religious discourse in Saudi Arabia (2001-10) / Eman Mohammad Alhussein -- 16. De-territorialized Islamisms : women's agency of resistance and acquiescence / Shahin Gerami -- 17. Racialization and the challenge of Muslim integration in the European Union / Valerie Amiraux -- 18. UK counter-terrorism strategy and Muslim diaspora communities : the 'securitisation of integration' / Tahir Abbas -- 19. Perpetual struggle : the significance of Arab-Israeli conflict for Islamists / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- 20. A tortured relationship : Islamists and US foreign policy / Benjamin MacQueen -- 21. Islamism in the Middle East : the resistant, the fighter and the mujahid / Bernard Rougier -- 22. Islam and 'the clash of civilizations'? : an historical perspective / Howard V. Brasted with Adeel Khan

Cover -- Violence against Women and Ethnicity: Commonalities and Differences across Europe -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface (Renate Klein) -- Introduction (Ravi K. Thiara, Stephanie Condon and Monika Schröttle) -- Part 1: Building and Sharing Knowledge about Violence Against Women in Europe -- Violence Against Women: Still a Political Problem Throughout Europe (Rosa Logar) -- What Do We Know About Gendered Violence and Ethnicity Across Europe From Surveys? (Stephanie Condon, Maud Lesné and Monika Schröttle) -- Part 2: Making the Links -- Particularly Violent? The Construction of Muslim Culture as a Risk Factor for Domestic Violence (Renée Römkens with Esmah Lahlah) -- Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Intersectional Perspectives in a Biographical Context (Nadja Lehmann) -- From the Racialization of Sexism to Sexism as an Identity Marker (Christelle Hamel) -- Part 3: Forms and Effects of Violence Against Women -- Male Violence Against Migrant Women: Denying Rights in a Racist Gender System (Sabine Masson and Patricia Roux) -- Violence Against Migrant Women, Health and Sexuality: Trajectories of Women from Sub-Saharan Africa Living with HIV/AIDS in France (Dolorès Pourette) -- Violence Against Women and the Social, Ethnic and Sexual Division of Labour: Continuity and Disparity Between Community Care Workers' Experiences (Emmanuelle Lada and Ghislaine Doniol-Shaw) -- Ethnicities in the Aftermaths of Sexualised Coercion - Common Issues and Diverse Personal Meanings (Bodil Pedersen) -- Correlates of Partner Violence and Health among Migrant Women in Germany: Results of Comparable Analyses of Quantitative Survey Data (Monika Schröttle and Nadia Khelaifat) -- Racism, Violence and Health: The Living Experience of Immigrant Women In An Italian City (Patrizia Romito, Giuditta Creazzo, Daniela Paci and Emanuela Pipitone).

Sex, secularism, and the "war on terrorism" : the role of sexuality in multi-issue organizing / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Freedom and the racialization of intimacy : Lawrence v. Texas and the emergence of queer liberalism / David L. Eng -- "No atheists in the foxhole" : toward a radical queer politics in a post-9/11 world / Sharon P. Holland -- Queer love in the time of war and shopping / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Who needs civil liberties? / Richard Meyer -- The relevance of race for the study of sexuality / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- Deviant teaching / David M. Halperin -- After Sontag : future notes on camp / Ann Pellegrini -- Queer spectrality : haunting the past / Carla Frecerro -- The desire for gender / Robyn Wiegman -- Methodologies of trans resistance / Dean Spade -- The history of aphallia and the intersexual challenge to sex/gender / Vernon A. Rosario -- Gesture and utterance : fragments from a butch femme archive / Juana Maria Rodriguez -- Queer belongings : kinship theory and queer theory / Elizabeth Freeman -- Forgetting family : queer alternatives to Oedipal relations / Judith Halberstam -- Between friends / Jennifer Doyle -- Queer regions : locating lesbians in Sancharram / Gayatri Gopinath -- The light that never goes out : butch intimacies and sub-urban sociabilities in "lesser Los Angeles" / Karen Tongson -- "Serious innovation" : an interview with Judith Butler / Jordana Rosenberg -- Materiality, pedagogy, and queer visibility / Amy Villarejo -- Melos, Telos, and me : transpositions of identity in the rock musical / James Tobias -- Promising complicities : on the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project / Miranda Joseph, David Rubin -- Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism / Jose Esteban Muñoz

Sex, secularism, and the "war on terrorism" : the role of sexuality in multi-issue organizing / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Freedom and the racialization of intimacy : Lawrence v. Texas and the emergence of queer liberalism / David L. Eng -- "No atheists in the foxhole" : toward a radical queer politics in a post-9/11 world / Sharon P. Holland -- Queer love in the time of war and shopping / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Who needs civil liberties? / Richard Meyer -- The relevance of race for the study of sexuality / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- Deviant teaching / David M. Halperin -- After Sontag : future notes on camp / Ann Pellegrini -- Queer spectrality : haunting the past / Carla Frecerro -- The desire for gender / Robyn Wiegman -- Methodologies of trans resistance / Dean Spade -- The history of aphallia and the intersexual challenge to sex/gender / Vernon A. Rosario -- Gesture and utterance : fragments from a butch femme archive / Juana Maria Rodriguez -- Queer belongings : kinship theory and queer theory / Elizabeth Freeman -- Forgetting family : queer alternatives to Oedipal relations / Judith Halberstam -- Between friends / Jennifer Doyle -- Queer regions : locating lesbians in Sancharram / Gayatri Gopinath -- The light that never goes out : butch intimacies and sub-urban sociabilities in "lesser Los Angeles" / Karen Tongson -- "Serious innovation" : an interview with Judith Butler / Jordana Rosenberg -- Materiality, pedagogy, and queer visibility / Amy Villarejo -- Melos, Telos, and me : transpositions of identity in the rock musical / James Tobias -- Promising complicities : on the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project / Miranda Joseph, David Rubin -- Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism / Jose Esteban Muñoz

In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active in choosing and constructing their ethnic identities.Focusing on second-generation South Asian Americans, Bandana Purkayastha offers fresh insights into the subjective experience of race, ethnicity, and social class in an increasingly diverse America. The young people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese origin that are the subjects of the study grew up in mostly white middle class suburbs, and their linguistic skills, education, and occupation profiles are indistinguishable from their white peers. By many standards, their lifestyles mark them as members of mainstream American culture. But, as Purkayastha shows, their ethnic experiences are shaped by their racial status as neither "white" nor "wholly Asian," their continuing ties with family members across the world, and a global consumer industry, which targets them as ethnic consumers." Drawing on information gathered from forty-eight in-depth interviews and years of research, this book illustrates how ethnic identity is negotiated by this group through choice--the adoption of ethnic labels, the invention of "traditions," the consumption of ethnic products, and participation in voluntary societies. The pan-ethnic identities that result demonstrate both a resilient attachment to heritage and a celebration of reinvention. Lucidly written and enriched with vivid personal accounts, Negotiating Ethnicity is an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity and racialization in contemporary American culture.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Aryanism and the Webs of Empire -- 1 The Emergence of Aryanism: Company Orientalism, Colonial Governance and Imperial Ethnology -- Trade to dominion: the birth of Company Orientalism -- Language and colonial power -- Patronage and the institutional basis of colonial knowledge -- Sir William Jones, Sanskrit and human origins -- Language and cultural comparison -- Colebrook and the Vedic golden age -- The impact of Sanskritocentrism -- Indocentrism: the Scottish Enlightenment in 'Further India' -- Orientalism, the Irish Enlightenment and settler self-fashioning -- Prichardian ethnology and the Anglo-Saxon revival -- Max Müller and the Aryan theory -- Aryans, India and 1857 -- Aryanism as an ethnological tool -- Regional variation and the limits of racialization: Punjab -- Conclusion -- 2 Indocentrism on the New Zealand Frontier: Geographies of Race, Empire and Nation -- Pacific exploration and the question of origins -- The Semitic Maori? -- Richard Taylor and the emergence of Indocentrism -- Indocentrism consolidated: Edward Shortland -- Colonial science and philology -- J. T. Thomson and the 'Barata' race -- Tregear and the Aryan Maori -- Conflict, consensus and synthesis: Indocentrism 1885-c. 1930 -- The death of Indocentrism: racial origins and the rise of nationalism -- Conclusion -- 3 Systematizing Religion: from Tahiti to the Tat Khalsa -- 'Religion' -- Presence and absence: Tahiti and New Zealand -- A discourse of negation: the search for Maori religion -- Missionary ethnography -- Affirmation: religion in India -- The structure of Brahmanical Hinduism: vaidik and laukik -- Evangelical critiques of Hinduism -- The 'jungle': Hinduism and ethnography -- Sikhism: Nanak and the Indian 'Reformation' -- Dissenting voices: Evangelical attacks on Sikhism.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part I Towards a Sociology of the Sociology of 'Race', Ethnicity and Nation -- 1 Sociology, the State and Social Change: Theoretical Considerations -- Inequality, exclusion and conflict: the problem stated -- The role of sociology and sociologists -- The identity of sociologists: the salience of 'race'/ethnicity gender and class differences? -- Sociology the state and social change: some key terms defined -- The role of case studies -- References -- 2 The Colour Line and Sociology -- Introduction -- Walls of exclusion and silence: Du Bois and Mydral -- Politics of whiteness, sociology and scholarship in the 1980s -- Public policy and black voices: checkerboard politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Non-European Societies: Histories Rooted in Slavery, Apartheid and Genocide -- 3 Whatever Tomorrow Brings: African-American Families and Government Social Policy -- The history of family policy in the United States -- Black family and national social policy: theoretical and substantive issues -- Theory and method in the study of black families -- Omissions in black family studies and their consequences for social policy -- Black families: protectors of the realm -- Summary, conclusions and implications -- References -- 4 The Racialization of Social Scientific Research on South Africa -- The mainstream network -- Unanswered questions -- Constraints on understanding -- The way forward -- Notes -- References -- 5 Independence, Incorporation and Policy Research: an Australian Case Study -- The institutional and social context to research on migration and ethnic relations -- The structure and operation of the Bureau of Immigration Research -- The research role of the bureau -- Research after the bureau -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

"Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of the ethnographic camera back onto itself, bringing the perspective of a third eye to bear on the invention of the primitive other, Rony reveals the collaboration of anthropology and popular culture in Western constructions of race, gender, nation, and empire. Her work demonstrates the significance of these construction -- and, more generally, of ethnographic cinema -- for understanding issues of identity. In films as seemingly dissimilar as Nanook of the North, King Kong, and research footage of West Africans from an 1895 Paris ethnographic exposition, Rony exposes a shared fascination with -- and anxiety over -- race. She shows how photographic "realism" contributed to popular and scientific notions of evolution, race, and civilization, and how, in turn, anthropology understood and critiqued its own use of photographic technology. Looking beyond negative Western images of the Other, Rony considers performance strategies that disrupt these images -- for example, the use of open resistance, recontextualization, and parody in the films of Katherine Dunham and Zora Neale Hurston, or the performances of Josephine Baker. She also draws on the work of contemporary artists such as Lorna Simpson and Victor Masayesva Jr., and writers such as Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin, who unveil the language of racialization in ethnographic cinema"--Back cover

Recent studies on political attitude formations have developed the ethnoracialization framework, which emphasizes the roles of racial hierarchies and ethnic identities interconnected with national origins. However, existing research has not established analytical strategies to incorporate this framework, leaving a gap between theory and practice. We propose an alternative analytical model to examine ethnoracialized political attitudes using the case of Asian Americans' support for race-conscious college admissions. Using data from the 2016 National Asian American Survey, our effect coding reveals how Asian Americans' race-conscious admissions attitudes vary by ethnicity. Then, we investigate whether this variation can be attributed to theoretical predictors of such attitudes, including the mention of previously supportive Supreme Court decisions on race-conscious admissions, through regression modeling. Most ethnic groups' mean support scores significantly vary from the grand mean of Asian Americans, and those gaps remain significant even after controlling for socioeconomic backgrounds and general predictors. As an exception, redistributionism accounted for some ethnic variations. Certain predictors such as individual experiences of the U.S. opportunity structure and the racial justice frame shaped overall race-conscious admissions attitudes but did not reduce ethnic variations. These findings highlight the need for increased attention to the analysis of ethnic communities when studying ethnoracialized political attitudes, as our current theories appear insufficient in explaining variations observed between ethnic groups. Thus, conducting research that explores the interplay between Asian Americans, racialization, and ethnic communities will provide a more comprehensive understanding of Asian Americans and potentially other ethnoracialized groups.

Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity. Much of the current disaster literature adopts a social vulnerability perspective, which considers how political, social, and economic factors influence pre-disaster preparation and post-disaster recovery. Even with this focus, however, there remains a dearth of literature on immigrant populations and their long-term recovery trajectories. This paper applies a racial formation framework to a disaster context. I seek to show how service providers from community-based organizations (CBOs) navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies to help the Mexican immigrant community in Houston, Texas with their long-term housing recovery after Hurricane Harvey. I conducted semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations with service providers from CBOs located in Houston that serve this population with post-disaster housing. I argue that the disaster recovery system is comprised of racial structures and racialized anti-immigrant policies, passively and actively limiting the access to resources for the Mexican immigrant community. I found that to challenge the racial structures and racialized anti-immigrant policies of the disaster recovery system, service providers assist the community through direct assistance to Mexican immigrants excluded from other programs; collaboration with other organizations to combine limited resources; helping the community navigate racialized anti-immigrant bureaucracy; and building trust by embedding themselves in the victimized community. However, findings also show that these organizations face significant challenges in conducting their work. This research brings a much-needed theoretical expansion of race and racialization theories to disaster research.

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This overview of animal studies scholarship from 2020 covers a diverse range of sites – from escaped primates in IKEA carparks to boar hunting in colonial India – and disciplinary contexts, drawing together research from philosophy, literary theory, the environmental humanities, animal geographies, imperial history, and ecofeminism. What unites these texts is their engagement with one of the most significant themes in animal studies: the politics of anthropocentrism. The first sections of the essay engage with work that has sought to critique anthropocentric logics and practices. Through focusing on research related to the exotic pet trade, avian extinction, and colonial science, I illustrate how anthropocentric hierarchies are being enacted – but also complicated – but particular socio-economic relationships and knowledge-frameworks. In the second sections of the essay, I engage more explicitly with scholarship that has foregrounded the complex relationships between anthropocentrism, colonialism, gendered inequalities, and racialization. Although this research is wide-ranging, what it shares is an insistence on the need to better situate narratives about the intersection of human and animal oppression, in light of the way these relations are shaped by specific national and cultural contexts. The essay culminates by discussing contemporary critiques of animal studies due to the primacy it has given to anthropocentrism over other oppressive social relations, particularly race. At the same time as arguing that the field needs to meaningfully engage with these critiques moving forward, I conclude by suggesting that there is something important about anthropocentrism that means it retains value as a critical concept for animal studies.

Given the negative and limited representations of Muslims and Palestinians, and the central role that women play in this spectrum of dominant representations, this article takes interest in the possibilities of circulating dissent and alternative portrayals through digital media. Taking interest in the poetry of Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad, which vibrantly emerged in the digital public sphere in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, this analysis focuses on Hammad's digital interventions to challenge Islamophobia and other forms of discursive and material domination. Based on a textual analysis of Hammad's poetry, this article is also informed by a semi-structured interview conducted with the artist, as well as other information available in the public domain. This analysis reveals that digital media play an important role in increasing Hammad's ability to circulate her art to a wider audience. Building bridges across multiple communities and positions of marginality transnationally, Hammad's work attempts to challenge dominant Islamophobic and gendered discourses about identity. However, similarly to other "minority" artists, "talking back" (hooks 1989) to dominant discourses requires a performativity of identity, and is at the same time anchored to the motivation to unsettle essentialist understandings of identity. Through her writings and poetry performances archived online, Hammad highlights the complexity of identity and reveals both how racialization is socially constructed and the racial ambiguity of Islamophobia. While acknowledging the discursive formation of identity, Hammad's work also underscores the real, material consequences of discourses of fear and hate in order to regain some agency and symbolic power.