1- A Political History of Racialization and the Invention of
Whiteness
Racialized Whiteness: its History, Politics, and Meaning
This paper is a synopsis of the invention of race, whiteness, and white supremacy in the 17th century Virginia colony
Motherhood, Racialization, and the State
An analysis of the matrilineal servitude statute of 1662, and its role in the development and evolution of slavery, race, and white supremacy
The Racialized Construction of Class in the United States
The exclusion of freed black skilled workers in the northern states right after the revolution has nad a profound effect on how the working class defines itself, and who does the defining
The Cultural Roots of US Interventionism
On the political culture that supports US interventionism. Whiteness and white supremacy as cultural structures have, over the last 250 years, conditioned the support people give to US military interventionism in the world
2- Political Forms of Racialization -- the White Supremacist
State
The Militarization of the Police
As part of its post-civil rights attempt to reconstitute the hegemony of white racialized identity, and the hegemony of the culture of whiteness, the government has militarized the police, and transformed them into a new segregating machine.
The Avant-Guard of White
Supremacy (with Jared Sexton)
On the non-reformability of hyperinjustice, which is the excess of hegemony exercised by the racialized US state in producing the racialization of US society, and that can’t be overthrown as a mere power structure. It can only be dissolved though political alternatives.
White Identity, Constitutionality, and its Double Legal System
Judge Taney, in his Dred Scott decision, exemplifies the duality and duplicity of the US judicial system, a double legal structure which traces its source to the slave codes. It parallels the double class structure that also characterizes the US, whose contemporary manifestations are racial police profiling and the prison industry.
Immigration and the Whiteness of the US Border
On the dual boundary that surrounds the US as a
"white nation," and how US institutions can be considered "white." An
analysis of anti-immigration movements in the
relation to European immigrants, escaped slaves before the Civil War,
and contemporary Latino immigration.
3- The Subjective Structures of Racialization in the US
White Skin, White Affect: Redundancy, Obsession, and Gratuitous Violence
The history is white supremacy is brought along with the identity of whiteness in all its criminality, because that identity is inseparable from the product of that history, white society and culture itself. This raises serious questions for anti-racists who are white.
'Bad Lieutenant,' 'Pulp Fiction,' and the Cultural Production of Whiteness
A critique of these two movies which were generally regarded as liberal critiques of race and racism in the US. Under analysis, they present themselves as harbingers and examples of the new racism.
Race and the Ghost of Ontology
A consideration of both the constructivist and the
objectivist approaches to the concept of race. The general argument
put
forth is that they are not strictly separable, and that the difference
between them is itself racialized, and perspective dependent. There is
no race-neutral perspective.
The Languages of Racial Loyalty
An argument radically distinguishing the racial identity of a racially oppressed people from nationalism
4- social forms and ideologies of contemporary racialization
Affirmative Action and the Structure of Whiteness
what the movement to defend affirmative action didn't understand about the attack on it: the insecurity and paranoia of white racialized identity
Social Change, Class, and the Problem of White Racialized Identity
In order for social change to occur in the US, the fundamental mortar holding it together, white supremacy and white racialized identity the culture of whiteness, will have to be understood and addressed in its origins, its language, and its pathology.
The Structure of Samuel Huntington's Anti-immigrant Ideology
Samual Huntington's approach to Latino immigration has the same structure as traditional European anti-semitism. And it treads close to calling for the same violence.
5- Racialization and Social Institutions
The Coloniality of Power: Toward De-Colonization
Some notes on the Transmodernity Thesis of the
history
of the Americas, with notes toward the decolonization of the US
Immigration and Reparations:
a
Black-Latino Intersection
The onto-political relation between the African American demand for reparations and the present wave of Latino immigration
Mexico, Iraq, and the Two Party System: Studies in White Supremacy
The unprovoked 2003 US invasion of Iraq not only reflected its historical expansionism as originally expressed as Manifest Destiny and the assault on Mexico, but exemplified how their common structure conditioned the formation of the two party system
The Dual-state Character of US as a Society: notes toward Decolonization
The story of Jack Johnson, the prizefighter at the
turn of the century, the thinking of Frantz Fanon, an anti-colonialist
fighter and thinker of the 60s, and the "state" of the "white
nation."
On the two assaults on Iraq
Purity and Gangrene: a meditation on the discourse of bombs
This was written shortly after the bombing of Iraq in 1991 -- the war that was not a war because only one side did any shooting -- trying to fathom the motive and the project of the US in so gratuitously destroying an entire social infrastructure.
The Bombing of Iraq: A Trans-class Reading of the New World Order
The nature of the globalized corporate culture which formed the substance of the New World Order, as well as the citizenry of the Transnational Political Structure in formation, for which Iraq was the latest victim.
The Raciality of the Assault on Iraq
How the invasion of Iraq duplicated the structure of white supremacy
The Meta-Politics of Social Justice Movements
What the Existence of Social
Justice Movements Means
An ontology of social justice movements: 1) that they
prove society is not democratic; 2) that they form the basis for
alternate political structures and cultures.
Social Justice Movements as
Border Thinking: An
Anzalduan Meditation
Social justice movements map both the boundary of
political structures and their ethics
Political Corruption and the Ethics of Refusal
Once the political structure moves beyond corruption
to meta-corruption, then the only ethical stance is to refuse it
There is nationalist patriotism and the patriotism
that refuses the criminality of its government; both fail to find a
true ethics for the nation-state
The Cuban State as an
Alternative to the
Nation-State
An analysis of the Cuban state and its inversion of
the components of the nation-state. The Cuban state is based on
multiple popular assemblies, mass organizations, and centralized
ministries.
Drugs, cops, corporations, and the ethics of
refusal
Drugs,
Race, and Political Autocracy
An overview of the reasons the US government is
involved in tdrug trafficking: economic stability, centralization of
the executive, and reracialization of US society
Corporate
Globalization: it culture and politics
on the stretagies of globalized corporations to form
a
transnational political structure through the WTO, with a critique of
the culture of corporations as a hegemonic citizenry of the New World
Order
Political Corruption and the Ethics of Refusal
Once the political structure moves beyond corruption
to meta-corruption, then the only ethical stance is to refuse it