Situating "Race" and Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars

Grounded in real life and theoretically charged, the nine essays in this
interdisciplinary collection explore how race, racisms, and racialization are changing and
suggest strategies for reading their emerging forms and discourses. Race has
historically been defined by visible difference, but the slippery nature and malleability of
racisms and racialising processes challenge scholars and activists to remain vigilant,
responsive, and critical in teir analyses and actions.

This collection explores the strengths and weaknesses of postmodern social
theory in the struggle against racism. Recognizing diversity as a conduit for
resilience, endurance, and strength, the editors have tried to encourage coalition
building by bringing together historians, sociologists, cultural theorists, and
literary scholars in dialogue with artists and activists. Topics considered include nation
formation, racialized states, cultural racism, multiculturalism, hyphenated and mixed-race
identities, media and representation, and shifting identities.

Contributors include Jeannette Armstrong, director of the En'owkin
International School of Writing in Penticton, Canada; Frances Henry, professor emirita at York
University; Yasmin Jiwani, assistant professor in the Department of Communication
Studies at Concordia University; Paul Maylam, chair of the Department of History at
Rhodes University, South Africa; Minelle Mahtani, assistant professor in the
Department of Geography and Planning, and the Program in Journalism, University of
Toronto; Roy Miki, professor of contemporary literature in the English Department at
Simon Fraser University; Roxana Ng, professor in the Department of Adult Education,
Community Development and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute of
Secondary Education/University of Toronto; Ali Rattansi, retired professor of
sociology at City University London; Ann Stoler, distinguished professor and chair,
Department of Anthropology, New School University in New York; and Carol Tator, course
coordinator in the Department of Anthropology, York University.
Review quotes
The eclectic approach helps to defamiliarize and denaturalize 'race' by
showing it as always locally located even as it resonates with wider historical and
global systems/forces. An extremely important and timely collection of essays
that attends to temporal and spatial processes of racialization, this collection will
surely be of great benefit to students across a wide range of disciplinary boundaries. Alissa
Trotz, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Acknowledgments viiPreface ix
Introduction: Toward a Critical Literacy of Racisms, Anti-Racisms,
and Racialization 3 Jo-anne Lee and John Lutz

Deconstructing Race, Deconstructing Racism (with Postscript 2004) 30
A Conversation Between Jeannette Armstrong and Roxana Ng

On Being and not Being Brown/Black-British: Racism, Class, Sexuality,
and Ethnicity in Post-Imperial Britain (with Postscript 2004: The Politics
of Longing and (Un)Belonging, Fear, and Loathing) 46
Ali Rattansi
Mixed Metaphors: Positioning "Mixed Race" Identity 77
Minelle Mahtani
Turning In, Turning Out: The Shifting Formations of "Japanese Canadian"
from Uprooting to Redress 94
Roy Miki
Racist Visions for the Twenty-First Century: On the Banal Force of the
French Radical
Right 114
Ann Laura Stoler
Unravelling South Africa's Racial Order: The Historiography of Racism,
Segregation,
and Apartheid 138
Paul Maylam
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Globe and Mail Editorials on
Employment Equity 161
Frances Henry and Carol Tator
Orientalizing "War Talk": Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body
Post-9/11 in
The Montreal Gazette 178
Yasmin Jiwani
Contributors 205
Index 209