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DESCRIPTION:-\n\n"The Banality of Murder for the Structures of Racialization"\n\n- by 
 Steve Martinot\n\nA look at what lies beneath the surface, and connects the 
 murders of Trayvon Martin, Troy Davis, Oscar Grant, Gary King, Amadou 
 Diallo, Ramarley Graham, and others -- and now Alan Blueford (last Saturday 
 night) \n\nThis talk will examine some of the recent killings of black men 
 by white men with guns at a number of levels. First, there will be an 
 examination of the tacit approbation, almost a stamp of legitimacy, given 
 each by the white power structure. This runs like a unifying thread through 
 these instances. Second, a sense of intentional focus of the killer in each 
 case can be described by comparing these crimes against this thread as a 
 background, which connects them. Third, when seen against that common 
 background, the totality of those acts reveals a cultural structure, a 
 racialized structure of violence. It points beyond the ideology of white 
 supremacy to more general components of a culture of whiteness that governs 
 processes of social racialization. Fourth, there is a grammar of race that 
 is revealed by this, which underlies white supremacy and white racialized 
 identity. When put together, we begin to see the contours of a cultural 
 structure of racialization. But we also see which social institutions can 
 be attacked by a pro-democracy movement to dismantle white supremacy and 
 relegate it to the museums. \n\nIn short, between white identity and these 
 acts of murder, there is a cultural structure which we can discern, beyond 
 the prosaic aspects of what are called racism or discrimination, and which 
 given cultural authorization to institutional racism and segregation from 
 deep beneath the political processes of this country. That is, if race is a 
 social construct, a description of the structure constructed is necessary, 
 first, in order to understand the irresolvability of the issue when 
 addressed in terms of its prosaic aspects (which has a long history), and 
 second, to be able to become proactive against it, to win a real democracy 
 from its hold on the land, instead of simply reacting to 
 it.\n\n___________________________________________________________\n\nSteve 
 Martinot is author of:\n\n"The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the 
 Structure of Racialization"\n\nand\n\n"The Rule of Racialization: Class, 
 Identity, 
 Governance"\n\n-------------------------------------------------------\n(see 
 Amazon.com for description and reviews)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/17/18713689.php
SUMMARY:"The Banality of Murder for the Structures of Racialization" - a talk by Steve Martinot
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegarph Ave.\n(1 block north of Alcatraz 
 Ave.) \nOakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/17/18713689.php
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