Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction / Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson I. Alternative Identifications 1. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead / Lisa Marie Cacho; 2. I = Another: Digital Identity Politics / Kara Keeling; 3. Reading Tehran in Lolita: Making Racialized and Gendered Difference Work for Neoliberal Multiculturalism / Jodi Melamed II. Undisciplined Knowledges 4. The Lateral Moves of African American Studies in a Period of Migration / Roderick A. Ferguson; 5. Volumes of Transnational Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill / Ruby Tapia; 6. Time for Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, and the Limits of Legal Justice / Chandan Reddy; 7. Romance with a Message: W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess and the Problem of the Color Line / Sanda Mayzaw Lwin III. Unincorporated Territories, Interrupted Times 8. "In the Middle": The Miseducation of a Refugee / Victor Bascara; 9. Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico / Martha Chew Sanchez; 10. 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 / Grace Kyungwon Hong; 11. Becoming Chingon/a: A Gendered and Racialized Critique of the Global Economy / M. Bianet Castellanos; 12. Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Race and U.S. Citizenship / Helen H. Jun; 13. "A Deep Sense of No Longer Belonging": Ambiguous Sites of Empire in Ana Lydia Vega's Miss Florence's Trunk / Cynthia Tolentino References; Contributors; Index

Prizes

Examines the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the "strange affinities," afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations

Reviews

"In a world reorganized by neoliberal globalization, the stark inequalities of new class and racial formations require newly sharpened analytic and political tools. The essays collected in Roderick A. Ferguson and Grace Kyungwon Hong's Strange Affinities address these realities, stretching our too static concepts and methods, and challenging our political visions. Drawing on women of color feminism and queer of color critique, this indispensable volume reinvents existing ethnic studies, feminist and queer theory modes of analysis to provide new ways of thinking the intertwined histories of race, class, nation, gender and sexuality for the 21st century." Lisa Duggan, author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity "This ambitious and theoretically compelling volume lays the groundwork for a 'new ethnic studies' by centering gender and sexuality within comparative race projects. In a globally integrated economy, with older forms of colonialism and the nation-state giving way to new modes of neocolonial exploitation and domination under the shadow of global capitalism, the need for a new ethnic studies that can unpack the political and cultural implications of these evolving social relations in various contexts and locations is ever more urgent." David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy