ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the seminar as an interdisciplinary course in cultural studies, drawing material from across particular geopolitical and historical contexts transgressing the territorial divisions of the social sciences, sciences, and humanities, and employed a variety of scales to shape its conceptual and theoretical map. “Race and Caste” carried the titles of African American studies, South Asian studies, ethnicity, race, and migration studies, and women's gender and sexuality studies but was not defined by, or reducible to, any one of them. Brunais was a key participant in the British imperial project to secure the boundaries of white identity as he visualized increasingly important categories of racialization that structured the dynamics of power in a transnational British world. Intersectionality's project attends to a particular aspect of the US context, effectively shearing off domestic from imperial concerns, and methodologically cannot signal the multi-scalar racial project of Euro-American imperialisms.
