{"product_id":"if-we-were-kin-race-identification-and-intimate-political-appeals-paperback","title":"If We Were Kin: Race, Identification, and Intimate Political Appeals - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Beard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn June 1973, amid ideological rifts in the U.S. gay liberation movement, thousands of people gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Partway through the rally, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) co-founder Sylvia Rivera fought her way to the stage to address the predominantly white, middle class lesbian and gay crowd. Over the din of their boos and jeers, Rivera reprimanded the crowd for failing in their responsibilities to their \"gay brothers and sisters\" in jail, detailed the sacrifices she had made for the movement, and called them into the politics of STAR, \"The people who are trying to do something for all of us and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club! And that is what you all belong to!\" Rivera's appeal thus worked through a push-pull of distance and belonging, shaming the movement for its assimilatory turn while invoking forms of kinship and calling her\u003cbr\u003elisteners into an expansive multi-issue liberation politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow does a sense of intimacy call people into political community?\u003cem\u003e If We Were Kin\u003c\/em\u003e is about the \u003cem\u003ewe\u003c\/em\u003e of politics--how that \u003cem\u003ewe\u003c\/em\u003e is made, fought over, and remade--and how these struggles lie at the very core of questions about power and political change. Across a range of sites in racial justice and queer\/trans liberation movements--from speeches by James Baldwin and Sylvia Rivera in the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary immigrant justice campaigns by the antiracist LGBTQ organization Southerners on New Ground (SONG)--Lisa Beard traces a distinct lineage of appeals that challenge atomized and hierarchical racial formations in the United States and advance powerful visions of political relationships rooted in mutuality and shared freedom. In plumbing the deeper registers of identificatory appeals, Beard transforms understandings of identity, solidarity, political confrontation, and apparent loss\/failure as points of possibility. \u003cem\u003eIf We Were Kin\u003c\/em\u003e offers an innovative account of racial politics and\u003cbr\u003epolitical theory rooted in Black, Latinx, queer, and trans activism in twentieth and twenty-first century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Beard \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. Beard's work has been published in \u003cem\u003ePolitical Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, National Political Science Review\u003c\/em\u003e (now \u003cem\u003eNational Review of Black Politics\u003c\/em\u003e), and in the edited volume \u003cem\u003eA Political Companion to James Baldwin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.28 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454600659122,"sku":"9780197517321","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/172a0289dfb59739f76a10d0c8932ffb.webp?v=1778855473","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/if-we-were-kin-race-identification-and-intimate-political-appeals-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}