Rule Of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance (Labor In Crisis) - Softcover

Martinot, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566399823 ISBN 13: 9781566399821

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 o

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From the Publisher

A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US

From the Inside Flap

"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. The Rule of Racialization tracks the structures of feeling and thinking—illogical, unconscious, baffling, and vestigial though they may be—that remain the driving forces of racialization and racism today." —Eric Lott, University of Virginia, author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566399823
• ISBN 13: 9781566399821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280