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State of white supremacy : racism, governance, and the United States / edited by Moon-Kie Jung, Joao H. Costa Vargas, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism, State of White Supremacy reveals race to be a fundamental, if flexible, ruling logic that perpetually generates and legitimates racial hierarchy and privilege.Racial domination and violence in the United States are indelibly marked by its origin and ongoing development as an empire-state. The widespread misrecognition of the United States as a liberal nation-state hinges on th
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Genealogies of Racial Rule; II. Politics of Privilege and Punishment; III. Territory and Terror; Notes; References; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804777445
- 0804777446
- OCLC:
- 714569466
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