Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies

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Reimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science research and methods There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Yến Lê Espiritu, Miliann Kang, Monisha Das Gupta, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Laura E. Enriquez, Kevin Escudero, and Gilda L. Ochoa, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race, racism, and White supremacy —namely, the Black-White binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and settler-colonial studies, liberal assumptions, and the limited conception of what constitutes data. Secondarily, the book and its contributors reveal that sociology has useful questions, methodologies, and approaches to offer scholars of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. Disciplinary Futures is an important work that renders these disciplines more intellectually expansive and thus better able to tackle urgent issues of race, White supremacy, and injustice. Contents Introduction: How We Got Here, Where We’d Like to Go Now Part I. Empire and Racial Capitalism 1. Critical Immigration and Refugee Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach 2. Between a War and a Pandemic: Yemeni American Corner Stores during COVID 3. Precarity and Privilege: Racial Capitalism, Immigration Law, and Immigrants’ Academic Pursuits 4. Education for Community Empowerment: Layered Histories of Colonization and the Ongoing Movement for Decolonization in Guåhan’s Social Studies Curriculum Part II. Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Studies 5. Crossing the Lines: Sociology, Indigenous Nations, and American Studies 6. Unsettling the Spectacle of Settler Sovereignty: Democracy and Indigenous Justice 7. In the Present Tense of Indigenous Politics: Lessons Learned from Hawai‘i 8. A Healing Methodology: An Indigenous Research Process Part III Race/Racism, Intersectionality, and White Supremacy 9. The Souls of Sociology: Imaginative Sociology, Cultural Studies, and the Post/colonial Disruption 10. A Queer of Color Critique for Sociology: The Mutual Constitution of Race and Sexuality 11. Cripping the Model Minority Mother: Race, Disability, and Reproductive Exclusion in Asian American Families 12. “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Public Opinion on Race in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years after Rodney King Part IV. New Epistemologies and Methodologies 13. Mana as Sacred Space: A Talanoa of Tongan American College Students in a Pacific Studies Learning Community Classroom 14. Unsettling the Settler Colonial Triptych: Visioning AlterNative Futures with Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed 15. Creating Intuitively: The Art and Flow of Intuitive Social Science 16. On the Margins of Sociology and Grounded in Chicana/o Latina/o Studies: Cross-Generational Reflections on (Un)Disciplining Acknowledgments About the Contributors About the Editors Index