Racial Domination

Loïc Wacquant 지음

Polity 2024년 06월 07일 출간

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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 t

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Preface: Bachelard, Weber, BourdieuProblemstellung: When the politics and analytics of race collideSociological reset: epistemology, methodology, theorySpecifying dominationCaveats and preview1.-Reframing Racial Domination1.-Historicize2.-Spatialize3.-Dislodge the United States4.-Forsake the logic of the trial5.-Race as denegated ethnicityDiagonal of racializationExcursus: the radical abdication of AfropessimismDialectic of salience and consequentialityRace-making through classification struggles2.-Pentad of Ethnoracial RuleDisassembling racial domination1.-Categorization2.-Discrimination3.-Segregation 4.-Seclusion5.-ViolenceArchitecture and articulationsLure of “racial capitalism”Classification, stratification, and the stateThe mystification of “structural racism”“Structural racism” redux: a penal illustrationRace-making as group-makingGroup hysteresis, denigration and disgrace3.-Jim Crow as Caste TerrorismFrom song to doxic notion to analytic conceptRise and reign of the one-drop ruleEconomic infrastructure: sharecropping and debt peonageSocial core: asymmetric bifurcation and the mandate of deferenceLocking the system: political and judicial exclusionSpecter of “white death”Caste terrorism: the virtues of conceptual clarity4.-Fatal Attraction: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and MeshReframing black hyperincarcerationFour “peculiar institutions”How the ghetto became more like a prisonHow the prison became more like a ghettoHow the prison is remaking race and reshaping citizenshipHistory, penality and placeCoda: From racial domination to racial justiceVarieties of racial dominationThree paths to racial justiceHistoricity of racial do

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저자(글) Loïc Wacquant