Disciplinary futures : sociology in conversation with American, ethnic, and indigenous studies

**Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods** There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. __In Disciplinary Futures__, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Yến Lê Espiritu, Miliann Kang, Monisha Das Gupta, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Laura E. Enriquez, Kevin Escudero, and Gilda L. Ochoa, __Disciplinary Futures__ offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race, racism, and White supremacy —namely, the Black-White binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and settler-colonial studies, liberal assumptions, and the limited conception of what constitutes data. Secondarily, the book and its contributors reveal that sociology has useful questions, methodologies, and approaches to offer scholars of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. __Disciplinary Futures__ is an important work that renders these disciplines more intellectually expansive and thus better able to tackle urgent issues of race, White supremacy, and injustice. Contents 5 Introduction: How We Got Here, Where We’d Like to Go Now 7 Part I. Empire and Racial Capitalism 27 1. Critical Immigration and Refugee Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach 27 2. Between a War and a Pandemic: Yemeni American Corner Stores during COVID 48 3. Precarity and Privilege: Racial Capitalism, Immigration Law, and Immigrants’ Academic Pursuits 68 4. Education for Community Empowerment: Layered Histories of Colonization and the Ongoing Movement for Decolonization in Guåhan’s Social Studies Curriculum 88 Part II. Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Studies 111 5. Crossing the Lines: Sociology, Indigenous Nations, and American Studies 111 6. Unsettling the Spectacle of Settler Sovereignty: Democracy and Indigenous Justice 132 7. In the Present Tense of Indigenous Politics: Lessons Learned from Hawai‘i 147 8. A Healing Methodology: An Indigenous Research Process 166 Part III Race/Racism, Intersectionality, and White Supremacy 189 9. The Souls of Sociology: Imaginative Sociology, Cultural Studies, and the Post/colonial Disruption 189 10. A Queer of Color Critique for Sociology: The Mutual Constitution of Race and Sexuality 209 11. Cripping the Model Minority Mother: Race, Disability, and Reproductive Exclusion in Asian American Families 227 12. “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Public Opinion on Race in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years after Rodney King 248 Part IV. New Epistemologies and Methodologies 275 13. Mana as Sacred Space: A Talanoa of Tongan American College Students in a Pacific Studies Learning Community Classroom 275 14. Unsettling the Settler Colonial Triptych: Visioning AlterNative Futures with Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed 294 15. Creating Intuitively: The Art and Flow of Intuitive Social Science 308 16. On the Margins of Sociology and Grounded in Chicana/o Latina/o Studies: Cross-Generational Reflections on (Un)Disciplining 331 Acknowledgments 353 About the Contributors 355 About the Editors 359 Index 361 Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures , a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Yến Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and settler-colonial studies, the liberal assumptions, and the limited conception of what constitutes data. In turn, the contributors reveal that sociology has many useful questions, methodologies, and approaches to offer scholars of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. Disciplinary Futures is an important work, one which renders these disciplines more intellectually expansive and thus better able to tackle urgent issues of injustice. "As Ethnic Studies grows across campuses, traditional disciplines need to change. Disciplinary Futures brings together leading scholars who explain why and how fields of study can learn from one another in order to advance research on race/racism, white supremacy, and racial justice"-- Provided by publisher