Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation

225 Pages·2016·2.065 MB·English

by  Gary Y. Okihiro

Third World
S T U D I E S

GARY Y. OKIHIRO
Third World
S T U D I E S
THEORIZING LIBERATION
Duke University Press
Durham and London 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Okihiro, Gary Y., [date] author.
Title: Third World studies : theorizing liberation / Gary Y. Okihiro.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2016011264
isbn 9780822362098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 9780822362319 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn 9780822373834 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Developing countries—Study and teaching—
United States. | Minorities—Study and teaching—United States. |
Decolonization—Study and teaching—United States.
Classification: lcc d16.4.d44 o35 2016 | ddc 909/.09724—dc23
lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016011264
For my students

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Subjects 15
Chapter 2
Nationalism 37
Chapter 3
Imperialism 57
Chapter 4
World-System 77
Chapter 5
Education 93
Chapter 6
Subjectification 107
Chapter 7
Racial Formation 121
Chapter 8
Social Formation 139
Chapter 9
Syntheses 155
Notes 173 Bibliography 187 Index 201

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would have been impossible without my students. They
are the reason I teach and write. They inspire and impart meaning
to my life. Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation draws from
my dialogues with them.
Elfriede Michi Barall was indispensable as a remarkable research
assistant and an able manuscript reader for this project. I owe her
an immense debt of gratitude. Thankfully, during the summer of
2015 Katie Julia Zheng assisted me with research for this book, and
for her excellence and generosity I am grateful.
The anonymous reviewers of this manuscript were terrific; they
knew the subject matter, offered sage advice, and thereby made this
book much better than originally submitted. I thank them as valu-
able colleagues and as, I am certain, allies of the masses in struggle
fighting the power(s).
I have known Ken Wissoker for decades. Years ago we spoke
about a Duke University Press series on social formation, which I
theorize herein. The series came to naught because of my neglect.
Now I thank Ken for accepting what I consider a summation of my
intellectual labors.