Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader - Softcover

"The ground-breaking aspect of this volume is that it underscores the urgency to train new scholars and thinkers that can help reformulate and rethink complex issues such as racism, ethnicity and hate crimes, all characteristics of the zeitgeist." -- Natascha Adama * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "This ambitious new collection from the Critical Ethnic Studies Association successfully stakes out important intellectual and political stances in the field of ethnic studies." -- N. Barnd * Choice *

Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to promote open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding the field's expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns. Covering a wide range of topics, from multiculturalism, the neoliberal university, and the exploitation of bodies to empire, the militarized security state, and decolonialism, these twenty-five essays call attention to the urgency of articulating a Critical Ethnic Studies for the twenty-first century.