Okihiro Gary Y. Okihiro

Third World Studies (eBook, PDF)

Theorizing Liberation

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power-notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies program; Third World studies was over before it began. Detailing the field's genesis and premature death, Gary Y. Okihiro presents an intellectual history of ethnic studies and Third World studies and shows where they converged and departed by identifying some of their core ideas, concepts, methods, and theories. In so doing, he establishes the contours of a unified field of study-Third World studies-that pursues a decolonial politics by examining the human condition broadly, especially in regard to oppression, and critically analyzing the locations and articulations of power as manifested in the social formation. Okihiro's framing of Third World studies moves away from ethnic studies' liberalism and its U.S.-centrism to emphasize the need for complex thinking and political action in the drive for self-determination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373834
• Artikelnr.: 54673242

Autorenporträt

Gary Y. Okihiro (1945-2024) was Visiting Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University and the author of many books, including The Boundless Sea: Self and History and American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Subjects  19
2. Nationalism  45
3. Imperialism  69
4. World-System  91
5. Education  113
6. Subjectification  131
7. Racial Formation  149
8. Social Formation  171
9. A luta continua  203
Notes  241
Bibliography  271
Index  299