Jodi Melamed
Biographic Data
| ID | 764118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jodi Melamed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jodi |
| FAMILY NAME | Melamed |
| SIGNATURE | MELAMED J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”
Racial Capitalism Now
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action Jodi Melamed (bio) In her 2017 presidential address, Kandice Chuh addresses the suppression of dissenting scholars and the accelerated undermining of education in the Trump era with an intellectual boldness and along lines that I have come to associate with the scholarship of many ASA-affiliated thinkers. She does not defend academic freedom; rather, she ana…
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis
A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. Jodi Melamed reassesses the analytic of institutionality, which has largely been theorized as a dominant tool of the university in incorporating the emergent and muting the oppositional. In particular, scholars in American and cultural studies have noted how universities responded to the revolutionary calls of radical social …
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again)
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again) Jodi Melamed (bio) The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 400pages. $23.98 (paper). The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minne…
Racial Capitalism
Accumulation under capitalism is necessarily the expropriation of labor, land, and resources. But it is also something else: we need a more apposite language to think about capital as a system of expropriating violence on collective life itself. To this end, one way to strengthen racial capitalism as an activist hermeneutic is to use it to name and analyze the production of social separateness—the disjoining or deactivating of relations between h…
Dangerous Associations
Dangerous Associations Jodi Melamed (bio) When Curtis Marez delivered his presidential address on November 22, 2013, he could not have known that days later, the American Studies Association would become the target of a hegemonic bloc of university presidents and regents, politicians and watchdog institutions connected through their condemnation of the ASA resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.1 Yet his speech that evening made a st…
Tours that Bind
Represent and Destroy
"In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations of difference. Following the institutionalization…
The Killing Joke of Sympathy
The Killing Joke of Sympathy" reconstructs the centrality of the "race novel" for the consolidation of racial liberalism as an official and limited state of antiracism in the United States after World War II. In particular, it considers the evidentiary and emotional values ascribed to literature by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, arguably the most influential philanthropy at mid-century dedicated to race relations. For the fund, literature was a privi…
The Ruptures of American Capital
Book Review| December 01 2007 The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital Jodi Melamed Jodi Melamed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-050 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Cita…
The Spirit of Neoliberalism
Research Article| December 01 2006 The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM Jodi Melamed Jodi Melamed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jodi Melamed; The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO …
Racial Capitalism
Accumulation under capitalism is necessarily the expropriation of labor, land, and resources. But it is also something else: we need a more apposite language to think about capital as a system of expropriating violence on collective life itself. To this end, one way to strengthen racial capitalism as an activist hermeneutic is to use it to name and analyze the production of social separateness—the disjoining or deactivating of relations between h…
The Spirit of Neoliberalism
Research Article| December 01 2006 The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM Jodi Melamed Jodi Melamed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jodi Melamed; The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO …
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis
A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. Jodi Melamed reassesses the analytic of institutionality, which has largely been theorized as a dominant tool of the university in incorporating the emergent and muting the oppositional. In particular, scholars in American and cultural studies have noted how universities responded to the revolutionary calls of radical social …
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again)
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again) Jodi Melamed (bio) The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 400pages. $23.98 (paper). The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minne…
The Killing Joke of Sympathy
The Killing Joke of Sympathy" reconstructs the centrality of the "race novel" for the consolidation of racial liberalism as an official and limited state of antiracism in the United States after World War II. In particular, it considers the evidentiary and emotional values ascribed to literature by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, arguably the most influential philanthropy at mid-century dedicated to race relations. For the fund, literature was a privi…
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action Jodi Melamed (bio) In her 2017 presidential address, Kandice Chuh addresses the suppression of dissenting scholars and the accelerated undermining of education in the Trump era with an intellectual boldness and along lines that I have come to associate with the scholarship of many ASA-affiliated thinkers. She does not defend academic freedom; rather, she ana…
Dangerous Associations
Dangerous Associations Jodi Melamed (bio) When Curtis Marez delivered his presidential address on November 22, 2013, he could not have known that days later, the American Studies Association would become the target of a hegemonic bloc of university presidents and regents, politicians and watchdog institutions connected through their condemnation of the ASA resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.1 Yet his speech that evening made a st…
Tours that Bind
The Spirit of Neoliberalism
Research Article| December 01 2006 The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM Jodi Melamed Jodi Melamed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jodi Melamed; The Spirit of Neoliberalism: FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM TO …
The Ruptures of American Capital
Book Review| December 01 2007 The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital Jodi Melamed Jodi Melamed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-050 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Cita…
The Killing Joke of Sympathy
The Killing Joke of Sympathy" reconstructs the centrality of the "race novel" for the consolidation of racial liberalism as an official and limited state of antiracism in the United States after World War II. In particular, it considers the evidentiary and emotional values ascribed to literature by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, arguably the most influential philanthropy at mid-century dedicated to race relations. For the fund, literature was a privi…
Represent and Destroy
"In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations of difference. Following the institutionalization…
Tours that Bind
Dangerous Associations
Dangerous Associations Jodi Melamed (bio) When Curtis Marez delivered his presidential address on November 22, 2013, he could not have known that days later, the American Studies Association would become the target of a hegemonic bloc of university presidents and regents, politicians and watchdog institutions connected through their condemnation of the ASA resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.1 Yet his speech that evening made a st…
Racial Capitalism
Accumulation under capitalism is necessarily the expropriation of labor, land, and resources. But it is also something else: we need a more apposite language to think about capital as a system of expropriating violence on collective life itself. To this end, one way to strengthen racial capitalism as an activist hermeneutic is to use it to name and analyze the production of social separateness—the disjoining or deactivating of relations between h…
Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis
A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. Jodi Melamed reassesses the analytic of institutionality, which has largely been theorized as a dominant tool of the university in incorporating the emergent and muting the oppositional. In particular, scholars in American and cultural studies have noted how universities responded to the revolutionary calls of radical social …
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again)
Being Together Subversively, Outside in the University of Hegemonic Affirmation and Repressive Violence, as Things Heat Up (Again) Jodi Melamed (bio) The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 400pages. $23.98 (paper). The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minne…
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action
The Proliferation of Rights-Based Capitalist Violence and Pedagogies of Collective Action Jodi Melamed (bio) In her 2017 presidential address, Kandice Chuh addresses the suppression of dissenting scholars and the accelerated undermining of education in the Trump era with an intellectual boldness and along lines that I have come to associate with the scholarship of many ASA-affiliated thinkers. She does not defend academic freedom; rather, she ana…
Predatory Value
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and…
“Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police”
Racial Capitalism Now
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works)