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"This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine - like other imperial and settler colonial projects - cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question of Palestine explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system. Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, this collection illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism. Essays build on a long-standing tradition of theorizing race in Palestine studies and speak to four interconnected themes - the politics of racialization and regimes of race, racism and antiracism, race and capital accumulation, and Black-Palestinian solidarity. These engagements challenge the exceptionalism of the Palestinian case, and stress the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism, settler colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy"--
List of contents
Introduction
—Lana Tatour
1. Race and Space in Israel/Palestine
—Neve Gordon And Yinon Cohen
2. Apartheid without Race
—John Reynolds
3. Zionism as a Form of Racism
—Noura Erakat
4. The Invention of the "Bedouin Race"
—Seraj Assi
5. Proletarianization of the Mizrahim
—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
6. The Racial Hierarchy of Refugees
—Abigail B. Bakan And Yasmeen Abu-Laban
7. Black-Palestinian Solidarity and the Global Color Line
—Michael R. Fischbach
8. Racial Capitalism and Militarized Accumulation
—Kieron Turner
9. Zionist Racialized Sexual Politics and Palestinian Refusal
—Ronit Lentin
10. Antisemitism and the Proxification of Antiracism
—Alana Lentin
11. Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Palestinian Rights
—David Palumbo-Liu
