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Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale 1
1. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures 43
2. Indian Domesticity, Setter Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction 93
3. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty 145
4. Blackness, Criminaltiy, Governance 199
Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms 257
Notes 271
Bibliography 343
Index 379
About the author
Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including
Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form;
Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation; and
Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, all also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.
