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An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they
produce racism in the United States
A groundbreaking effort to find the "common language" between two
of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth
century, Forms in the Abyss promises to be one of the most
significant contribution to our critical understanding of western
thought in recent memory.
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the
significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of
complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial
injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race
scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into
consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem
rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white
privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text
challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or
color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and
sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the
significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of
complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial
injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race
scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into
consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem
rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white
privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text
challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or
color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and
sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.
An important history of the way class formed in the US, The Rule of
Racialization offers a rich new look at the invention of whiteness
and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed
in the seventeenth century and consolidated by custom, social
relations, and eventually naturalized by the structures that
organize our lives and our work. Arguing that, unlike in Europe,
where class formed around the nation-state, race deeply informed
how class is defined in this country and, conversely, our unique
relationship to class in this country helped in some ways to invent
race as a distinction in social relations. Martinot begins tracing
this development in the slave plantations in 1600s colonial life.
He examines how the social structures encoded there lead to a
concrete development of racialization. He then takes us up to the
present day, where forms of those structures still inhabit our
public and economic institutions. Throughout, he engages historical
and contemporary thinkers on the nature of race in the US, creating
a book that at once synthesizes significant critiques of race while
at the same time offers a completely original conception of how
race and class have operated in American life throughout the
centuries. A uniquely compelling book, The Rule of Racialization
offers a rich contribution to the study of class, labor, and
American social relations. Author note: Steve Martinot is
Instructor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San
Francisco State University. He has edited two previous books, and
translated Racism by Albert Memmi.
This collection of essays on corporations, globalization and the
state takes a radical look at the role of the state in
globalization and its transformation thereby. It addresses such key
questions as: What role is the state (in both the North and South)
playing in its own rollback and demise? How has the emergence of
global production chains facilitated the emergence of a
transnational capitalist class? Do states still serve the interests
of the people they govern, or do they now primarily serve the
interests of global transnational capital? How can the struggle for
democracy be realized in a globalized state? The contributors seek,
in the context of the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement, to
analyse why and how democracy might be achieved in globalized
states. The editors and contributors are long-time social activists
approaching the issues from the perspective of the global South.
This collection is unique in that it includes work from and about
Cuba in relation to the impact of globalization.
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