State of White Supremacy Racism, Governance, and the United States [Hardcover]

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 Supremacyreveals 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 the twin conditions of its approximation for the white majority and its impossibility for their racial others. The essays in this book incisively probe and critique the U.S. racial state through a broad range of topics, including citizenship, education, empire, gender, genocide, geography, incarceration, Islamophobia, migration and border enforcement, violence, and welfare. While the first part of State of White Supremacy lays out the genealogy of racial rule in both theory and praxis, the second part of the book examines those aspects of American society so often racialized education, poverty, and crime especially by those forces seeking the destruction of what limited welfare state exists at present. . . We begin to see more of the cognitive apparatus of white supremacy that must be destroyed, and we take another step toward the goal of enlightenment and of liberation. Moon-Kie Jung teaches sociology and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jo?o H. Costa Vargas teaches Black diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Professor of Sociology at Duke University. A savvy blockbuster of a book, with prominent activists and scholars telling it like it really is: The U.S. state is systemically racist and imperialistic, with tentacles reaching into an array of societal arenas and operations, including military institutions, imlc"