Jared Sexton

Associate Professor, African American Studies School of Humanities
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies A.B., University of New Hampshire, History / Economics

Phone: (949) 824-8739
Email: jcsexton@uci.edu

Fields of Interest:
Critical Theory, Race & Sexuality, Coalition Politics, Contemporary U.S. Cinema

Publications
BOOKS

2) The Shadow of a Color Line: Racial Politics Beyond Coalition (in progress)

1) Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008)



ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

16) "People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery." Social Text (under review)

15) "African American Studies." A Companion to American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Blackwell, forthcoming)

14) "The Curtain of the Sky: An Introduction." Critical Sociology 36:1 (2010)

13) "Proprieties of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing." Critical Sociology 36:1 (2010)

12) "The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing." American Quarterly 61:1 (2009)

11) "Captivity, By Turns: A Comment on the Work of Ashley Hunt." Art Journal 66:3 (2007)

10) "Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control." Warfare in the Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, ed. Joy James (Duke UP, 2007)

9) "The Obscurity of Black Suffering." What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race and the State of the Nation, eds. South End Press Collective (South End Press, 2006)

8) "Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu-Ghraib." Antipode 38:5 (2006)

7) "Race, Nation and Empire in a Blackened World." Radical History Review #95 (2006)

6) "Fields of Fantasy and the Court of Appeal: On Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter." Visual Economies in/of Motion: Sport and Film, eds. Richard King & David Leonard (Peter Lang Publishing, 2006)

5) "Raw Life: An Introduction." Qui Parle 13:2 (2003)

4) "Race, Sexuality, and Political Struggle: Reading Soul On Ice." Social Justice 30:2 (2003)

3) "The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire." Social Identities 9:2 (2003)

2) "The Avant-garde of White Supremacy." Social Identities 9:2 (2003)

1) "There Is No Interracial Sexual Relationship: Race, Love, and Sexuality in the Multiracial Movement." Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures, eds. Steve Martinot & Joy James (Humanity Books, 2001)