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DESCRIPTION:The Structure of Racialization (free admission)\nIt is commonly accepted 
 today that race is a "social construct." But this does not begin to 
 describe what that structure is that has been constructed. Race has been 
 described psychologically as an effect of a racist prejudice, but that begs 
 the question of where the prejudice comes from. Race has been described as 
 a non-issue raised to the level divide-and-conquer strategy in class 
 relations and class struggle, but that begs the question of why that 
 strategy works so well. In order to begin to discern what has been 
 constructed in the guise of race, we must return ot its origins in the 
 continental colonies. There are specific reasons why the modern concept of 
 race developed in those colonies and not in the Spanish, or the British 
 Caribbean colonies. The story of the origin of race, which is really the 
 story of the origin of whiteness and white supremacy, involves a number of 
 historical steps, including the matrilineal servitude statute of 1662, 
 Bacon's rebellion of 1676, the slave codes and slave patrols of the early 
 18th century, in their significance as politico-cultural phenomena. Once 
 its origins provide a schema for grasping race and whiteness as cultural 
 structures (that is, as a hierarchy of social categorizations defined by 
 whites), its operations throughout US history, and the transformation of 
 its forms, can then be traced. Beyond the variety of forms of racial 
 exploitation and oppression that have succeeded one another (slavery 
 itself, Jim Crow and debt servitude, police profiling and the 
 prison-industrial complex), it is the structure of racialization that can 
 be seen at the foundation of class formations in the US, the peculiar 
 structure of unions, the idea of granting personhood to corporations, the 
 populist bargain between poor white farmers and workers and the white 
 elite, the way the government sold the idea of invading Iraq, etc. 
 SPONSORED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF SOCIETY Steve 
 Martinot, Ph.D., has worked as a machinist, truck driver and union 
 organizer, and now teaches in Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco 
 State University. His most recent book is The Rule of Racialization (Temple 
 University Press). He is also the translator of Albert Memmi’s book, 
 Racism (University of Minnesota Press).\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/05/18445843.php
SUMMARY:The Structure of Racialization
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland (near Ashby BART, ACT 
 #1 bus). 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/05/18445843.php
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