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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.
Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Seraj Assi, Abigail B. Bakan, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Yinon Cohen, Noura Erakat, Michael R. Fischbach, Neve Gordon, Alana Lentin, David Palumbo-Liu, John Reynolds, Kieron Turner
"The claim that the Zionist project always was and remains a racial regime has long been politically fraught, the heuristic of 'race' dismissed as a political polemic rather than a much-needed analytic category. This book puts such arguments to bed once and for all. A timely and unique intervention." —Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University
"Race and the Question of Palestine is a timely contribution at the intersection of critical studies of race and Palestine studies, a growing interdisciplinary community of scholarship and political organizing and critique." —Gabi Kirk, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"This remarkable edited volume makes Palestine an unavoidable subject matter for anyone dealing with questions of race and racism. The image of Palestine that emerges in these pages is crafted with care and precision. We witness and come to appreciate the rich tradition of Palestinian critics for whom the colonial situation always entailed a racial situation. The contributors speak with urgency and insight; this collection will serve as our necessary guide through these genocidal and fascist times." —Zahi Zalloua, Jerusalem Quarterly
"This highly theorized and well-documented study is original and innovative.... Race and the Question of Palestine is a must-read for scholars and graduate students of Palestine and Middle East studies, as well as race, anthropology, and history." —Arab Studies Quarterly
"Race and the Question of Palestine is a timely, incisive, and rigorous contribution to scholarship on Palestine, settler colonialism, Critical Race Studies, and Critical Zionist Studies. By centering race as the primary analytic for understanding Zionist settler colonialism and Palestinian dispossession, the editors have assembled a collection that is intellectually ambitious and politically assertive. The implications of its main argument, that race is central to the question of Palestine, are profound." —Yulia Gilich, Journal for the Critical Study of Zionism
—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