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The Ruptures of American Capital examines women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of U.S. capital that should be understood as marked by its crises. Interweaving discussion of U.S. political economy with literary analyses, Grace Kyungwon Hong challenges the fetishization of difference that is one of the markers of globalization

Through readings of Cherríe Moraga's book of poetry and prose The Last Generation and memoir Waiting in the Wings, this essay argues that Moraga's refusal to ascribe to any notion of ideological or political purity—whether normative or queer—regarding reproductive sexuality indexes the dual nature of racialized, gendered, and sexualized power in the contemporary moment. That is, Moraga's complex identifications as butch and mother, queer and nationalist confounds any categorical definition of radical politics or recalcitrance to power. In the wake of the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, a new mode of power emerged that constitutes surplus as both surplus labor—produced out of the conditions of exploitation—and surplus existence—produced out of conditions of devaluation. In this new capitalist configuration, Moraga's very inconsistency can be read as a condition of "crisis."

N April 23, the Center for the Study of Women will present a one-panel symposium, entitled "Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization," from 3 to 5 pm in 314 Royce Hall. Roderick Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, will present "The Lateral Moves of African American Studies." Ruby Tapia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, will present "Volumes of 'Transnational' Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill." Two UCLA professors, Rafael Perez-Torres of the Department of English and Russell Robinson of the Critical Race Studies program in the School of Law, will provide comment. This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the Women's Studies Program, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Department, UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Critical Race Studies Program in the School of Law.

Asian migration to the United States is an important frame through which to understand the myriad effects of the globalized economy; in turn, that migration must be viewed in the context of the United States' own "migration" to Asia via imperialism and neocolonialism, which developed in the post-World War II era. In this era, built upon but exceeding the technologies of a prior era of territorial imperialism and Fordist modes of industrial production, the production of knowledge about "Asia" becomes instrumental to the dominance of US capitalism in the global economy. In this context, the university as a site for the production of knowledge becomes a crucial site of struggle.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Grace Kyungwon Hong Roderick A. Ferguson -- One. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead -- Two. I = Another: Digital Identity Politics -- Three. Reading Tehran in Lolita Making Racialized and Gendered Difference Work for Neoliberal Multiculturalism -- Four. The Lateral Moves of African American Studies in a Period of Migration -- Five. Volumes of Transnational Vengeance Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill -- Six. Time for Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, and the Limits of Comparative Legal Justice -- Seven. Romance with a Message W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Problem of the Color Line -- Eight. ''In the Middle'' The Miseducation of a Refugee -- Nine. Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico -- Ten. Fun with Death and Dismemberment Irony, Farce, and the Limits of Nationalism in Oscar Zeta Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach People and Ana Castillo's So Far from God -- Eleven. Becoming Chingón/a A Gendered and Racialized Critique of the Global Economy -- Twelve. Black Orientalism Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship -- Thirteen. ''A Deep Sense of No Longer Belonging'' Ambiguous Sites of Empire in Ana Lydia Vega's Miss Florence's Trunk -- References -- Contributors -- Index