The politics of kinship : race, family, governance / Mark Rifkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rifkin, Mark, 1974- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous peoples--United States--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Kinship--United States.

Kinship--Political aspects--United States.

Kinship.

Families--United States--History.

Families.

Family policy--United States.

Family policy.

African American families--Government policy.

African American families.

African Americans--Kinship--United States.

African Americans.

Indigenous families.

Kinship--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous families.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 392 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Rifkin, Mark, 1974- Politics of kinship

ISBN:

9781478030003

1478030003

9781478021049

1478021047

OCLC:

1377589106

Publisher Number:

99996110034