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The Rule of Racialization
Steve Martinot
其他書名
Class, Identity, Governance
出版Temple University Press, 2003
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / DiscriminationSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic DisparitySocial Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN15663998239781566399821
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cg1p0hp-duMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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