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"Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had "a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East," comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might seem incontrovertible--and yet its meaning has been fiercely contested from the first. A Shadow over Palestine brings a new, deeply informed, and transnational perspective to the decades and the cultural forces that have shaped sharply differing ideas of Israel's standing with the United States--right up to the violent divisions of our day. Focusing on the period from 1960 to 1985, author Keith P. Feldman reveals the centrality of Israel and Palestine in postwar U.S. imperial culture. Some representations of the region were used to manufacture "commonsense" racial ideologies underwriting the conviction that liberal democracy must coexist with racialized conditions of segregation, border policing, poverty, and the repression of dissent. Others animated vital critiques of these conditions, often forging robust if historically obscured border-crossing alternatives. In this rich cultural history of the period, Feldman deftly analyzes how artists, intellectuals, and organizations--from the United Nations, the Black Panther Party, and the Association of Arab American University Graduates to James Baldwin, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edward Said, and June Jordan--linked the unfulfilled promise of liberal democracy in the United States with the perpetuation of settler democracy in Israel and the possibility of Palestine's decolonization. In one of his last essays, published in 2003, Edward Said wrote, "In America, Palestine and Israel are regarded as local, not foreign policy, matters." A Shadow over Palestine maps the jagged terrain on which this came to be, amid a wealth of robust alternatives, and the undeterred violence at home and abroad that has been unleashed as a result of this special relationship. "--

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This essay considers how the graphic arts of Leila Abdelrazaq give form to Palestine's contemporary worldliness and to the worldliness of Palestinian difference. It argues that Abdelrazaq's work illustrates the entanglement of diaspora, memory, and futurity within the interconnected structures of enclosure and expulsion.

This introductory essay points to the long patterns as well as the telling diversity of relationships revealed in genealogies of the race/religion/war triad. Our key observation is that race, religion, and war come together as a meaningful constellation precisely because they together underpin one dominant strategy of the power that we call the political, while at the same time we recognize that the relationships among race, religion, and war are simultaneously too compressed, historically transient, and reversible to take the form of a simple functionalism; indeed, at any particular moment their articulation is historically specific and subject to rearticulation. From the religious crucibles for the formation of race in the conquest of the Americas to the pastoral Christian origins of modern racial governmentality; from the colonial wars of high imperialism and the third-world proxy wars for the purportedly secular rivalry of the Cold War to the contemporary conditions of Muslim migrant and refugee communities—these multiple overlapping genealogies, we argue, are necessary reference points for an adequate analysis of our political present. As one way to think across these genealogies, we highlight the intersection of two ostensibly parallel scholarly trajectories: race as political theology and race as political ontology. Both of these trajectories point toward the condensed relationships among our three terms, illuminating in the process the deep structure of our present.

This article addresses a critical inflection point in the history of the long War on Terror: Israel's 1992 deportation of over four hundred Palestinians to the "no-man's-land" between Israel and Lebanon, and the camp that the deportees fashioned for the better part of one year to contest the legitimacy of Israeli colonialism and demand their return. The deportation—meant to incapacitate Islamic militant resistance to the US-brokered peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization—paradoxically provided the conditions of possibility for conversation and collaboration among attorneys, doctors, professors, university students, and imams, which had heretofore been highly restricted and regulated by Israel's carceral practices in the West Bank and Gaza. The deportees—those who in Giorgio Agamben's estimation had been literally abandoned in a zone of indistinction—engaged in a political practice of "habitational resistance," refusing their conversion into homines sacri by performing instead a mode of life that rendered multiple lines of transterritorial affiliation, self-assertion, and continuity. The deportees' published archive—poetry, photobooks, autoethnographies—is understood as a technology of mediation that operates beyond the bounds of the prevailing Islamophobic and orientalist frames while also addressing Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The case of the deportees thus illuminates the articulation of race, religion, and war as it rubs against the linkage between settler colonial dispossession and the Westphalian trinity of nation, state, and territory.

"Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and silence women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. #identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California, Berkeley. The Color of New Media explores the intersections of new media studies, critical race theory, gender and women's studies, and postcolonial studies. The essays in #identity consider topics such as the social justice movements organized through #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, and #SayHerName; the controversies around #WhyIStayed and #CancelColbert; Twitter use in India and Africa; the integration of hashtags such as #nohomo and #onfleek that have become part of everyday online vernacular; and other ways in which Twitter has been used by, for, and against women, people of color, LGBTQ, and Global South communities. Collectively, the essays in this volume offer a critically interdisciplinary view of how and why social media has been at the heart of U.S. and global political discourse for over a decade."

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE -- I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights -- ONE. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification -- TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary -- THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization -- FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State -- FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization -- SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See -- II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University -- SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education -- EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means -- NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University -- TEN. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity -- ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing -- III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital -- TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery -- THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification -- FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People -- FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag -- IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity -- SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention -- SEVENTEEN. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 -- EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life -- NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain -- TWENTY. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above -- V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures -- TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire -- TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence -- TWENTY-THREE. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn -- TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana -- TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index