Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship (Explorations in Postcolonial Citizenship)

"Locating Race provides a powerful critique of theories and fictions of globalization that privilege migration, transnationalism, and flows. Malini Johar Schueller argues that in order to resist racism and imperialism in the United States we need to focus on local understandings of how different racial groups are specifically constructed and oppressed by the nation-state and imperial relations. In the writings of Black Nationalists, Native American activists, and groups like Partido Nacional La Raza Unida, the author finds an imagined identity of post-colonial citizenship based on a race- and place-based activism that forms solidarities with oppressed groups worldwide and suggests possibilities for a radical globalism."--BOOK JACKET List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Theorizing Race, Postcoloniality, and Globalization Part 1. RACIAL ERASURE IN GLOBAL THEORY 2. Expunging the Politics of Location: Articulations of African Americanism in Bhabha, Appadurai, and Spivak 3. Border Crossing, Analogy, and Universalism in (White) Feminist Theory: The Color of the Cyborg Body Part 2. FROM THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL TO THE POST-COLONIAL 4. Globalization and Orientalism: Iyer’s Video Night in Kathmandu, Alexander’s Fault Lines and Mukherjee’s Jasmine 5. Claiming National Space and Postcolonial Critique: The Asian American Performances of Tseng Kwong Chi Part 3. POSSIBILITIES FOR POST-COLONIAL CITIZENSHIP 6. Black Nationalism and Anti-Imperial Resistance in Assata Shakur’s Autobiography 7. Recognition and Decolonization in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Conclusion. Rethinking Keywords and Notes on Located Resistances Today Notes Selected Bibliography Index Theorizing race, postcoloniality and globalization -- Expunging the politics of location: articulations of African-Americanism in Bhabha, Appadurai, and Spivak -- Border crossing, analogy, and universalism in (white) feminist theory: the color of the cyborg body -- Globalization and Orientalism: Iyer's Video nights in Kathmandu, Alexander's Fault lines and Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Claiming national space and postcolonial critique: the Asian-American performances of Tseng Kwong Chi -- Black nationalism and anti-imperial resistance in Shakur's autobiography -- Recognition and decolonization in Silko's Almanac of the dead Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.