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Papers by Susan Koshy

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual Naturalization

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of 64. Subaltern

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Asian American Women's Autobiography

Research paper thumbnail of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

Research paper thumbnail of Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: The Racial Strategies of the Chinese in Mississippi

Research paper thumbnail of The Fiction of Asian American Literature

The Yale Journal of Criticism, 1996

... her category and the global list of place names is the following summation: "Asi... more ... her category and the global list of place names is the following summation: "Asian American literature ... Or, to quote the Michael Jackson song, what does it mean for Asian Americans to say ... Both the Introduction and the Preface list (but do not explain or theorize) the dizzying array ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Diaspora

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood

Research paper thumbnail of Manifest Diversity and the Empire of Finance

Post45, 2022

This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economi... more This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economic migration to the West, both underwrites and pries open the settlements of neoliberal multicultural Empire. This analysis focuses on Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), examining how in focalizing US racial formations through the lens of Pakistani new immigration and US-Pakistani neocolonial relations, the novel brings out the deep links between US racial forms and the global restructuring of capitalism after the 1970s and presses for new understandings of racial and postcolonial agency to reckon with these changes. Through its protagonist, the narrative insistently links financial developments in the metropolis to (under)developments in the South. In this way, the novel retools anti-colonial and anti-racist critique to better grapple with the global structures of the new imperialism, which works through “weapons of mass salvation” such as financial aid, liberalized immigration policies, and multicultural recognition, as much as through weapons of mass destruction such as structural adjustment, detention and deportation, and high-tech warfare.

Research paper thumbnail of Manifest Diversity and the Empire of Finance

Post45 Journal, 2022

This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economi... more This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economic migration to the West, both underwrites and pries open the settlements of neoliberal multicultural Empire. This analysis focuses on Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), examining how in focalizing US racial formations through the lens of Pakistani new immigration and US-Pakistani neocolonial relations, the novel brings out the deep links between US racial forms and the global restructuring of capitalism after the 1970s and presses for new understandings of racial and postcolonial agency to reckon with these changes. Through its protagonist, the narrative insistently links financial developments in the metropolis to (under)developments in the South. In this way, the novel retools anti-colonial and anti-racist critique to better grapple with the global structures of the new imperialism, which works through “weapons of mass salvation” such as financial aid, liberalized immigration policies, and multicultural recognition, as much as through weapons of mass destruction such as structural adjustment, detention and deportation, and high-tech warfare.

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction Colonial Racial Capitalism

Research paper thumbnail of The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety

Research paper thumbnail of Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness

Research paper thumbnail of Historicizing Racial Identity and Minority Status for South Asian Americans

Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2012, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: Racial Strategies of the Mississippi Chinese, 1870-1950

Research paper thumbnail of From cold war to trade war : Neocolonialism and human rights

Social Text, 1999

L'A. se demande en quoi les droits de l'homme peuvent etre un instrument au service du ne... more L'A. se demande en quoi les droits de l'homme peuvent etre un instrument au service du neocolonialisme. Il souligne l'emergence d'un regime international des droits de l'homme. Il s'efforce de resituer le discours sur les droits de l'homme dans le contexte de l'apres-Guerre froide. Il examine le role des ONG et des medias dans le processus d'universalisation des droits de l'homme. Il denonce l'opposition entre relativisme culturel et universalisme. Il presente un certain nombre de crises globales qu'il confronte au projet universaliste.

Research paper thumbnail of Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days

Research paper thumbnail of Under other skies: writing gender, nation and diaspora

Publikationsansicht. 31774890. Under other skies : writing gender, nation and diaspora / (1992).K... more Publikationsansicht. 31774890. Under other skies : writing gender, nation and diaspora / (1992).Koshy, Susan. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.. Vita.. Bibliography: leaves 176-184.. Photocopy. Details der Publikation. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual Naturalization

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of 64. Subaltern

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Asian American Women's Autobiography

Research paper thumbnail of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

Research paper thumbnail of Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: The Racial Strategies of the Chinese in Mississippi

Research paper thumbnail of The Fiction of Asian American Literature

The Yale Journal of Criticism, 1996

... her category and the global list of place names is the following summation: "Asi... more ... her category and the global list of place names is the following summation: "Asian American literature ... Or, to quote the Michael Jackson song, what does it mean for Asian Americans to say ... Both the Introduction and the Preface list (but do not explain or theorize) the dizzying array ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Diaspora

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood

Research paper thumbnail of Manifest Diversity and the Empire of Finance

Post45, 2022

This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economi... more This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economic migration to the West, both underwrites and pries open the settlements of neoliberal multicultural Empire. This analysis focuses on Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), examining how in focalizing US racial formations through the lens of Pakistani new immigration and US-Pakistani neocolonial relations, the novel brings out the deep links between US racial forms and the global restructuring of capitalism after the 1970s and presses for new understandings of racial and postcolonial agency to reckon with these changes. Through its protagonist, the narrative insistently links financial developments in the metropolis to (under)developments in the South. In this way, the novel retools anti-colonial and anti-racist critique to better grapple with the global structures of the new imperialism, which works through “weapons of mass salvation” such as financial aid, liberalized immigration policies, and multicultural recognition, as much as through weapons of mass destruction such as structural adjustment, detention and deportation, and high-tech warfare.

Research paper thumbnail of Manifest Diversity and the Empire of Finance

Post45 Journal, 2022

This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economi... more This article looks at the ways in which the new diasporic subject, drawn into circuits of economic migration to the West, both underwrites and pries open the settlements of neoliberal multicultural Empire. This analysis focuses on Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), examining how in focalizing US racial formations through the lens of Pakistani new immigration and US-Pakistani neocolonial relations, the novel brings out the deep links between US racial forms and the global restructuring of capitalism after the 1970s and presses for new understandings of racial and postcolonial agency to reckon with these changes. Through its protagonist, the narrative insistently links financial developments in the metropolis to (under)developments in the South. In this way, the novel retools anti-colonial and anti-racist critique to better grapple with the global structures of the new imperialism, which works through “weapons of mass salvation” such as financial aid, liberalized immigration policies, and multicultural recognition, as much as through weapons of mass destruction such as structural adjustment, detention and deportation, and high-tech warfare.

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction Colonial Racial Capitalism

Research paper thumbnail of The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety

Research paper thumbnail of Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness

Research paper thumbnail of Historicizing Racial Identity and Minority Status for South Asian Americans

Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2012, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: Racial Strategies of the Mississippi Chinese, 1870-1950

Research paper thumbnail of From cold war to trade war : Neocolonialism and human rights

Social Text, 1999

L'A. se demande en quoi les droits de l'homme peuvent etre un instrument au service du ne... more L'A. se demande en quoi les droits de l'homme peuvent etre un instrument au service du neocolonialisme. Il souligne l'emergence d'un regime international des droits de l'homme. Il s'efforce de resituer le discours sur les droits de l'homme dans le contexte de l'apres-Guerre froide. Il examine le role des ONG et des medias dans le processus d'universalisation des droits de l'homme. Il denonce l'opposition entre relativisme culturel et universalisme. Il presente un certain nombre de crises globales qu'il confronte au projet universaliste.

Research paper thumbnail of Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days

Research paper thumbnail of Under other skies: writing gender, nation and diaspora

Publikationsansicht. 31774890. Under other skies : writing gender, nation and diaspora / (1992).K... more Publikationsansicht. 31774890. Under other skies : writing gender, nation and diaspora / (1992).Koshy, Susan. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.. Vita.. Bibliography: leaves 176-184.. Photocopy. Details der Publikation. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Racial Capitalism

Colonial Racial Capitalism, 2022

The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, an... more The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste management software encodes and produces racial difference, how Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war’s imperialist groundings. The volume’s analytic of colonial racial capitalism opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence, precarity, and inequality in modern society.

Contributors. Joanne Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Lisa Marie Cacho, Michael Dawson, Iyko Day, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alyosha Goldstein, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Susan Koshy, Marisol LeBrón, Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to "Monolingualism and Its Discontents

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction Colonial Racial Capitalism

Colonial Racial Capitalism, 2022