The machinery of whiteness
Subtitle: studies in the structure of racialization
By: Steve Martinot.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781439900512; 9781439900529
Subjects: Whites -- Race identity; Racism -- Unitred States -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History
Description: Examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. Martinot shows how race and racism are produced in the United States, analyzing the politics of racialization, and the preponderance of racial segregation and racial deprivation that have kept the U.S. a white dominated society throughout its history. He dedicates this work to expunging white supremacy from the earth. He investigates how whiteness came to be as foundational to the process that then produced the modern concept of race, addresses the instrumentalization of women as a necessary step in its formation, furthering the debates regarding the relationships of race and gender. He also addresses U.S. international interventionism, the anti-immigrant movements, and white racist populism to describe the political forms that white supremacy takes. He puts these together to analyze the underlying cultural structures of racialization that have driven and conditioned the resurgence of white supremacy and white entitlement in the wake of the Civil Rights movements. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Motherhood and the invention of race; title: The racialized state; title: A structural concept of race; title: The political culture of whiteness; title: The boundaries of the United States and immigration; title: The dual-state character of the United States; title: The structures of racialization.