Enfamilyment, Political Orders, and the Racializing Work of Scale -- Kinship's Past, Queer Interventions, and Indigenous Futures -- Indian Domesticity, Settler Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction -- Marriage, Privacy, Sovereignty -- Blackness, Criminality, Governance -- Inside/Outside State Forms.
Summary:
"The removal of Black and Indigenous children from their families by the US state has long been a practice of settler colonial violence. Black and Indigenous children are taken into government custody at a rate of twice to three times that of the general US population. In The Politics of Kinship Mark Rifkin explores how the concept of family drives this violence, which results in diminished life chances for non-white children. In a process that Rifkin terms "racialized enfamilyment," conventional notions of kinship serve to define who counts as a person, and who does not, and further who is targeted for state intervention. Examining landmark US court cases, federal Indian policy, and key episodes of American history, Rifkin deconstructs the work of racialization as it operates through the category of privacy. In doing so, the book uncovers the ways that Black and Indigenous people in the US have refused state governance and claimed forms of political sovereignty within and through non-normative kinship arrangements. The Politics of Kinship disrupts uninterrogated uses of kinship, expanding our understanding of how activities like gathering, collecting, sharing, and relating so often named "kinship" are actual forms of alternative political orders"-- Provided by publisher.
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