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DESCRIPTION:Occupy Forum presents:\n\nThe foundations of racism in America:  "Race" is 
 not a noun, it is a verb ("to racialize")  \n\nwith Steve Martinot\n\nWhite 
 supremacy is not just racism, it is the core of a culture.  "Race" is 
 produced by cultural structures and not just by psychological aberrations, 
 or by attributing characteristics to human beings.  To recognize the 
 operations of the structures of racialization in the U.S. today, and the 
 role of white racialized identity in maintaining those structures, we must 
 know their history.These structures emerged in the Virginal colony during 
 the 17th century as part of the way the English colonized the land, 
 demonized the indigenous people, and enslaved Africans. \n\nThus we can see 
 the structural components, and identify them in contemporary events and 
 political processes.  This capability has become all the more urgent 
 because, though the civil rights movements seriously undermined the 
 hegemony of whiteness, it did not contest the underlying structures of 
 racialization.  It is the resurfacing of those structures that is now 
 making a violent political comeback, and reconstituting the elements of 
 white racialized identity. \n\nThe strength of this comeback leaves the old 
 language of anti-racism weak and ineffective.  The new resistance that this 
 resurgence has engendered needs to see much more clearly what we are up 
 against than the old civil rights movements did.  To see and hit at the 
 core of this resurgence, which includes the prison industry and the 
 police-prison nexus, we need to see how its structural components work 
 together and resurrect each other.\n\nSteve Martinot has been a human 
 rights activist most of his life as a union organizer, community organizer, 
 anti-war activist and historian on the structures of racialization in the 
 U.S.  He is a former political prisoner, and active in prisoner solidarity 
 work today.  His eight books include "The Rule of Racialization" and "The 
 Machinery of Whiteness".  His latest publication is "The Need to Abolish 
 the Prison System."\n\nTime will be allotted for discussion, questions and 
 answers, and announcements.  This event is wheelchair accessible.  
 Donations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged.  No one will be 
 turned away for lack of funds.\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/23/18780275.php
SUMMARY:The Foundations of Racism In America
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission St., Conference Room\nSan Francisco, 
 California  94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/23/18780275.php
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