Representing essentially the most interesting paintings in serious ethnic reports, the essays during this assortment learn the construction of racialized, gendered, and sexualized distinction, and the probabilities for innovative coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded through nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations. The nationalist and identity-based strategies of race underlying the mid-twentieth-century hobbies for decolonization and social swap should not sufficient to the projects of critiquing the racial configurations generated by means of neocolonialism and contesting its inequities. modern regimes of energy produce racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence and exertions exploitation, they usually render topics redundant and disposable through growing new, nominally nonracialized different types of privilege and stigma. The editors of Strange Affinities contend that the best power for constructing much-needed substitute comparative tools lies in ladies of colour feminism, and the comparable highbrow culture that Roderick A. Ferguson has known as queer of colour critique. Exemplified through the paintings of Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Barbara Smith, and the Combahee River Collective, those reviews don't presume homogeneity throughout racial or nationwide teams. in its place, they provide robust relational analyses of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized valuation and devaluation of human life.

Contributors
Victor Bascara
Lisa Marie Cacho
M. Bianet Castellanos
Martha chunk Sánchez
Roderick A. Ferguson
Grace Kyungwon Hong
Helen H. Jun
Kara Keeling
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin
Jodi Melamed
Chandan Reddy
Ruby C. Tapia
Cynthia Tolentino