Racial formation in the twenty-first century / edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, Laura Pulido.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-360) and index.

Gendering racial formation / Priya Kandaswamy -- On the specificities of racial formation: gender and sexuality in historiographies of race / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The transivity of race and the challenge of the imagination / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- Indigeneity, settler colonialism, white supremacy / Andrea Smith -- The importance of being Asian: growers, the united farm workers, and the rise of colorblindness / Matthew Garcia -- The unbearable lightness of being (black): legal and cultural constructions of race and nation in colonial Latin America / Michelle A. McKinley -- Race, racialization, and Latino populations in the United States / Tomás Almaguer -- Kill the messengers: can we achieve racial justice without mentioning race? / Gary Delgado -- The new racial preferences: rethinking racial projects / Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris -- "We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their head off": Abu Ghraib revisited / Sherene H. Razack -- The "war on terror" as racial crisis: homeland security, Obama, and racial (trans)formations / Nicholas De Genova -- Racial formation in an age of permanent war / Nikhil Singh -- Racial formation rules: continuity, instability, and change / Michael Omi and Howard Winant.