Racial domination / Loïc Wacquant.
| Author/creator | Wacquant, Loïc J. D. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge : Polity Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xiii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface: Bachelard, Weber, Bourdieu -- Problemstellung: when the politics and analytics of race collide -- Sociological reset: epistemology, methodology, theory -- Bachelard's historical epistemology -- Weber's concept of ethnicity and method of the ideal type -- Bourdieu's theory of social space and symbolic power -- Specifying domination -- Caveats and preview-- Reframing Racial Domination -- Historicize -- Spatialize -- Dislodge the United States -- Forsake the logic of the trial -- Race as denegated ethnicity -- Diagonal of racialization -- Excursus: the radical abdication of afropessimism -- Dialectic of salience and consequentiality -- Race-making through classification struggles -- Elementary forms of ethnoracial rule -- Categorization -- Discrimination -- Segregation -- Seclusion -- Violence --Architecture and articulations -- The lure of "racial capitalism" -- Classification, stratification, and the state -- The mystification of "structural racism" -- "Structural racism" redux: a penal illustration -- Race-making as group-making -- Group hysteresis, denigration and disgrace -- Jim Crow as caste terrorism -- From song and dance to doxic notion to analytic concept -- The rise and reign of the one-drop rule -- Economic infrastructure: sharecropping and peonage -- Social core: bifurcation and deference -- Superstructural lock: political and judicial exclusion -- The omnipresent specter of "white death" -- Jim Crow as caste terrorism: virtues of conceptual clarity -- Deadly symbiosis: when ghetto and prison meet and mesh -- Reframing black hyperincarceration -- Four peculiar institutions -- How the ghetto became more like a prison -- How the prison became more like a ghetto -- How the prison is remaking "race" and reshaping citizenship -- History, penality and place -- Coda: from racial domination to racial justice -- Varieties of racial domination -- Three paths to racial justice -- Historicity of racial domination. |
| Abstract | "Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic denunciation and moral condemnation. In this erudite and incisive book based on a panoramic mining of comparative and historical research from around the globe, Loïc Wacquant pours cold analytical water on this hot topic and infuses it with epistemological clarity, conceptual precision, and empirical breadth. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant first articulates a series of reframings, starting with dislodging the United States from its Archimedean position, in order to capture race-making as a form of symbolic violence. He then forges a set of novel concepts to rethink the nexus of racial classification and stratification: the continuum of ethnicity and race as disguised ethnicity, the diagonal of racialization and the pentad of ethnoracial domination, the checkerboard of violence and the dialectic of salience and consequentiality. This enables him to elaborate a meticulous critique of such fashionable notions as “structural racism” and “racial capitalism” that promise much but deliver little due to their semantic ambiguity and rhetorical malleability—notions that may even hamper the urgent fight against racial inequality. Wacquant turns to deploying this conceptual framework to dissect two formidable institutions of ethnoracial rule in America: Jim Crow and the prison. He draws on ethnographies and historiographies of white domination in the postbellum South to construct a robust analytical concept of Jim Crow as caste terrorism erected in the late 19th century. He unravels the deadly symbiosis between the black hyperghetto and the carceral archipelago that has coproduced and entrenched the material and symbolic marginality of the African-American precariat in the metropolis of the late 20th century. Wacquant concludes with reflections on the politics of knowledge and pointers on the vexed question of the relationship between social epistemology and racial justice."--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781509563029 |
| ISBN | 1509563016 |
| ISBN | 9781509563012 hardback |
| ISBN | 1509563024 |
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