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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 7th, 2010\n7:00 PM\nBook Party! "The Machinery of Whiteness" 
 by Steve Martinot\n\n"The Machinery of Whiteness" by Steve Martinot: a 
 reading and discussion of this just-published book. The basic premise of 
 this book is that the most fundamental aspect and groundwork of the culture 
 of the US is not democracy but white supremacy and the hierarchy that 
 whiteness has constructed for itself. It is from this groundwork that a 
 white populism such as the Tea Party or the anti-affirmative action 
 movement arises, whenever the hegemony of whiteness is threatened by 
 democracy or a sense of equality and justice. This book examines the 
 structures of racialization that form this foundation. It underlies the US 
 political system, its social processes, its class relations, its cultural 
 norms. These structures of racialization, the white supremacy and white 
 racialized identity that it generates, have survived many confrontations by 
 reactive anti-racist movements that have attempted to end the hegemony, the 
 oppressions and dehumanizations of racism. The book examines how whiteness 
 and white supremacy have defeated those movements, and describes the 
 contours and inner dynamics of the structures of racialization, in order to 
 enable pro-active struggle against them. The book operates at four levels. 
 1- it goes beyond the idea of race being a social construct to begin to 
 describe the structures that had been constructed. 2- it sets up a 
 pro-democratic ethical framework from which to both analyze and judge the 
 cultural norms of racialization, as the necessary antithesis to the weight 
 of whiteness and the cultural solidarity and allegiance responsible for its 
 coherence. 3- it describes the specific material social structures by which 
 society is continually reracialized in the present, such as the "two party 
 system" and the "police-prison complex" and links them to their historical 
 antecedents, to the moments of 17th century invention and subsequent 
 development of the concept of race itself. 4- it argues that whiteness and 
 white supremacy in the US constitute a form of state that is neither 
 adjunct to the Constitutional state nor parallel to it, while being 
 inseparable from it.\nLocation: NPML 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 
 94609\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/27/18652006.php
SUMMARY:Book Party! "The Machinery of Whiteness" by Steve Martinot
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609\n(One 
 block north of Alcatraz Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/27/18652006.php
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