Rule Of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance (Labor In Crisis)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566399823 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"In fine accounts of the 17th-century Virginia colony, post-Revolutionary class and racial formation, Civil-Rights-era affirmative action debates, and the languages of whiteness, Steve Martinot offers a clear and ultimately clarifying work of scholarly synthesis. More than a work of historical analysis, it suggests a positive, large plan of action."-American Historical Review "This is a sweeping historical survey of racial construction in the United States since early European colonial settlement."-Journal of
Martinot begins tracing this development in the slave plantations in 1600s colonial life. 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. 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 o. 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. 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
A nice contribution to "whiteness studies" Amazon Customer >After all Martinot's analysis, the fundamental mystery still remains:how can race remain so persistent, even across changes to class systemsand the specific forms of racialization? Its suppositional structuregoes a ways towards an answer, but it always feels like something ismissing in every explanation. This is not remotely a flaw in Martinot'sbook, but is the very kernel that he moves us slightly closer towardsbeing able to understand.