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Machine generated contents note: Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The Multidimensional Beginnings of Gay Liberation Chapter 2. Gay Emancipation Goes to Market Chapter 3. Queerness and the One-Dimensional City Chapter 4. The Multidimensional Character of Violence Conclusion: The Historical Assumptions of Multidimensional Queer Politics Bibliography

"In the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the archaic university. In student-led movements, they fought for the new kinds of public the university needed to serve--women, minorities, immigrants, indigenous people, and more--with a success that had a profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century. Because of their efforts, ethnic studies, women's studies, and American studies were born, and minority communities have become more visible and important to academic debate. Less than fifty years since this pivotal shift in the academy, however, the university is fighting back. In We Demand, Roderick A. Ferguson shows how the university, particularly the public university, is moving away from "the people" in all their diversity. As more resources are put toward STEM education, humanities and interdisciplinary programs are being cut and shuttered. This has had a devastating effect on the pursuit of knowledge, and on interdisciplinary programs born from the hard work and effort of an earlier generation. This is not only a reactionary move against the social advances since the '60s and '70s, but part of the larger threat of anti-intellectualism in the United States."--Provided by publisher

"In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments that reflected their histories and experiences, resulting in the formation of interdisciplinary studies programs that hoped to transform both the university and the wider society beyond the campus.In The Reorder of Things, however, Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines--departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer studies--were not simply a challenge to contemporary power as manifest in academia, the state, and global capitalism but were, rather, constitutive of it. Ferguson delineates precisely how minority culture and difference as affirmed by legacies of the student movements were appropriated and institutionalized by established networks of power.Critically examining liberationist social movements and the cultural products that have been informed by them, including works by Adrian Piper, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Zadie Smith, The Reorder of Things argues for the need to recognize the vulnerabilities of cultural studies to co-option by state power and to develop modes of debate and analysis that may be in the institution but are, unequivocally, not of it"--

The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture-sexual difference-can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology-Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson-has measured African Americans' unsuitability for a liberal capitalist order in terms of their adherence to the norms of a heterosexual and patriarchal nuclear family model. In short, to the extent that African Americans' culture and behavior deviated from those norms, they would not achieve economic and racial equality.

A commentary that situates the current violent repression of Portland protesters by federal agents in the context of United States government repression of activism in prior moments of social 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