Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
C. Kim (1999)
The Racial Triangulation of Asian AmericansPolitics & Society, 27
P. Wolfe (2013)
Recuperating Binarism: a heretical introductionSettler Colonial Studies, 3
Audre Lorde (1981)
The Uses of Anger
C. Kim (2018)
ARE ASIANS THE NEW BLACKS?Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 15
Elaine Kim (1993)
5. HOME IS WHERE THE HAN IS: A KOREAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE LOS ANGELES UPHEAVALSSocial Justice, 20
Nancy Abelmann, John Lie (1995)
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
J. Sexton (2010)
People-of-Color-Blindness Notes on the Afterlife of SlaverySocial Text, 28
J. Sexton (2010)
Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of PolicingCritical Sociology, 36
Clyde Taylor (1973)
Black Consciousness and the Vietnam WarBlack Scholar, 5
During the 2020 summer of global uprisings in defense of Black life, widely circulated anti‐racist reading lists created heightened demand for books that promised to teach readers how to examine their internalized racism. Situated in U.S. racial liberalism’s extensive literary genealogy, anti‐racist “how‐to” literature has historically swooped in during moments of heightened racialized confusion to restore narratives of American exceptionalism. This literature sustains the tenuous promise that racism is something that one can challenge in interpersonal relationships and by following specific steps toward individualized behavior correction. Building on a broader body of work that has critiqued liberal anti‐racisms for detracting from abolitionst struggles against racialized injustice, this article specifically frames the limitations that “how‐to anti‐racisms” place on transgressive multiracial coalition building. Through ethnographic analysis of discourses and practices that move through various sites of contemporary Black‐Asian American activist encounters, I build on Black and radical women of color feminist theorizations of solidarity to show how “how‐tos” destabilize coalition building by overdetermining resolutions to conflict. I argue that in “settling” anti‐racism into a repertoire of predetermined steps, how‐to‐ism constrains the contradiction, anger, and uncertainty that is fundamental to forging the radical accountability central to abolitionist work.
Journal for the Anthropology of North America – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 2021
Keywords: ; ; ;
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.