The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance

Mark Rifkin

Published by Duke University Press 2024

The Politics of Kinship

Race, Family, Governance

Mark Rifkin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478059004

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About this book

Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settler-colonial violence.

Author / Editor information

Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form; Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation; and Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, all also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“The Politics of Kinship is a new and exciting contribution to the field that raises productive questions about the relationship and distinction between family and kinship. As part of his larger project, developing a queer critique of settler colonialism, Mark Rifkin here homes in on discourses of family and kinship to examine how these conversations have often elided underlying questions of governance and sovereignty.”

-- Manu Karuka, author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

“Distinctly and importantly drawing on Indigenous intellectual frames in order to rethink racialization in the United States, Mark Rifkin makes a powerful contribution to the robust body of scholarship on family, kinship, and race. The Politics of Kinship is a fantastic book.”

-- Jennifer C. Nash, author of How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One. Kinship’s Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Two. Indian Domesticity, Settler Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Three. Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Four. Blackness, Criminality, Governance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Coda: Inside/Outside State Forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400

eBook

Published: January 29, 2024
ISBN: 9781478059004