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Baum & Harris, eds., Racially Writing the Republic Duke U. Press, 2009

Cari Carpenter, Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians The Ohio State U. Press, 2008

Must this nation's founding narrative be premised on white European superiority and their "civilizing" mission? Cari Carpenter finds in Sarah Winnemucca's book Life Among the Piutes both an alternative origin story of the US and a direct challenge to the myth of the vanishing Indian. Also, Andrea Smith talks about the role of indigenous ideas in anti-violence movement theorizing.

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Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents Houghton Mifflin, 2009

It's not just a story about the Indian diaspora. It's about empire, about the movement of labor, about the use and abuse of race, about global historical forces that created expatriate communities in far-flung places. Minal Hajratwala explains how and why her extended family moved to and settled in nine different countries.

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Caribbean Philosophical Association

Grosfoguel, Maldonado-Torres & Saldivar, eds., Latino/as in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire Paradigm, 2006

Too many wars in the twentieth century, and in this one. Nelson Maldonado-Torres draws upon thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aime Cesaire to argue for a project of decolonization, one that directly confronts the Western paradigm of racist war. In his book Against War, Maldonado-Torres also analyzes the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Enrique Dussel. (Encore presentation.)

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Caribbean Philosophical Association

Grosfoguel, Maldonado-Torres & Saldivar, eds., Latino/as in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire Paradigm, 2006

Too many wars in the twentieth century, and in this one. Nelson Maldonado-Torres draws upon thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aime Cesaire to argue for a project of decolonization, one that directly confronts the Western paradigm of racist war. In his book Against War, Maldonado-Torres also analyzes the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Enrique Dussel.