Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power and Practice / Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek 1

Part One. Calculating Improvements 71

1. After the Great White Error . . . The Great Black Mirage / Paul Gilroy 73

2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex: Science and Colonial Militarism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa / Zine Magubane 99

3. “The More You Kill the More You Will Live”: The Maya, “Race,” and Biopolitical Hopes fro Peace in Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 122

Part Two. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution

4. “There is a Land Where Everything is Pure": Linguistic Nationalism and Identity Politics in Germany / Uli Linke 149

5. “On the Raggedy Edge of Risk": Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology / Bruce Braun 175

6. Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures": Environmental Justice, Toxic Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place / Giovanna Di Chiro 204

7. Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith Wailoo 235

8. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics / Donna Haraway 254

9. Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood / Robyn Wiegman 296

Part Four. The Politics of Representation 321

10. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity / Steven Gregory 323

11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism / Alcida Ramos 356

12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone / Tania Murray Li 380

Bibliography 407

Contributors 461

Index 465

Donald S. Moore

Paul Gilroy

Zine Magubane

Diane M. Nelson

Uli Linke

Bruce Braun

Giovanna Di Chiro

Keith Wailoo

Donna J. Haraway

Robyn Wiegman

Steven Gregory

Alcida Rita Ramos

Tania Murray Li

Anand Pandian

Kosek, Jake

"Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference charts the growing contributions of science studies to anti-racist projects. . . . [It] maps a broad and shifting terrain of theory, history, and materiality." — Kimberly Lamm, College Literature

"Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference is a splendid collection of essays, each of which, however much (or little) it contributes to the overall theme, stands alone as inherently interesting. Most chapters bear the marks of scholarship in being conceptually innovative, politically charged, carefully crafted, subtly argued, well written, and comprehensively referenced. The latter feature plus the bibliography as a whole makes the text especially useful for graduate students and all serious critical race scholars." — Kay Anderson, Environment and Planning D

"[M]any essays will be of interest to political theorists grappling with the cultural constructions of race and identity. . . ." — John Meyer, Theory and Event

"The introduction to the volume lays out this theoretical formation and offers a comprehensive guide to the literature that informs it. In a manner that has become increasingly rare in edited volumes, it is possible to read the introduction as an argument and an outline of the contribution of the volume as a whole. Each of the volume's sections then becomes a moment for reengaging the theoretical themes delineated in the beginning of the text, such as articulation, contingency, and conjuncture." — Paulla A Ebron, American Anthropologist

"This is a must-read book for those who are interested in a more nuanced discussion of race and nature, as well as for those readers, researchers, and practitioners who are about the business of exposing and challenging the many ways that racism works. . . . Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference gives us a fresh, thoughtful, and challenging framework within which to think imaginatively about our own research." — Yolanda T. Moses, Journal of Anthropological Research

"Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference charts the growing contributions of science studies to anti-racist projects. . . . [It] maps a broad and shifting terrain of theory, history, and materiality." —Kimberly Lamm, College Literature

"Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference is a splendid collection of essays, each of which, however much (or little) it contributes to the overall theme, stands alone as inherently interesting. Most chapters bear the marks of scholarship in being conceptually innovative, politically charged, carefully crafted, subtly argued, well written, and comprehensively referenced. The latter feature plus the bibliography as a whole makes the text especially useful for graduate students and all serious critical race scholars." —Kay Anderson, Environment and Planning D

"[M]any essays will be of interest to political theorists grappling with the cultural constructions of race and identity. . . ." —John Meyer, Theory and Event

"The introduction to the volume lays out this theoretical formation and offers a comprehensive guide to the literature that informs it. In a manner that has become increasingly rare in edited volumes, it is possible to read the introduction as an argument and an outline of the contribution of the volume as a whole. Each of the volume's sections then becomes a moment for reengaging the theoretical themes delineated in the beginning of the text, such as articulation, contingency, and conjuncture." —Paulla A Ebron, American Anthropologist

"This is a must-read book for those who are interested in a more nuanced discussion of race and nature, as well as for those readers, researchers, and practitioners who are about the business of exposing and challenging the many ways that racism works. . . . Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference gives us a fresh, thoughtful, and challenging framework within which to think imaginatively about our own research." —Yolanda T. Moses, Journal of Anthropological Research

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