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DESCRIPTION:This class will meet on Mondays for about 6 to 8 weeks.\n\nWe’ve been 
 fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism 
 for centuries. The civil rights movement, the largest mass upheaval since 
 the industrial union movement, produced black power, black parties, and a 
 spectrum of liberation movements. Yet today, racism, segregation, Jim Crow, 
 and police terror against people of color not only remain, they are being 
 enhanced. \n\nNot only do new groups, like immigrants and Muslims, get 
 subjected to racial assault. A Trump can come along with his 
 “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying 
 degrees of frenzy.\nWhat are we missing? \n\nIf: racism is just a “divide 
 and rule” strategy, why does it work so well? \n\nRacism has definitely 
 been a weapon in the class struggle. Yet labor history is full of examples 
 where white workers have chosen white solidarity over class solidarity. Is 
 that just “false consciousness”? For over 200 years? \nHow deep in this 
 culture are the sources of the constant racialization we experience? \n\nIf 
 race, whiteness, and white supremacy were developed in their modern form 
 out of colonialism, does their persistence suggest a persistence of 
 colonialism? [Cf George Jackson] \n\nDoes racism find its source in 
 prejudice, or ideology, or economic interest, or cultural interest, or are 
 those result and effects? How deep culturally does its real source reside? 
 \n\nIf race is a social construct, what is the structure that is 
 constructed? \n\nPerhaps the concept of "race" is misconstrued as a thing, 
 a characteristic. Suppose "race" were not a noun but a verb (to racialize). 
 Would that mean "race" was “done to people”? By whom? \n\nThis class 
 will look at the the structure of policing today, the structure of 
 segregation yesterday, the structure of colonization the time before that, 
 and the history of the construction of the “modern concept of race.” We 
 have three separate epochs to use to understand this phenomenon: the era of 
 enslavement, the era of segregation (Jim Crow), and the era of mass 
 incarceration. What was the structure of each? What put an end to each era? 
 And what has driven the emergence of the next era? \n\nThere will be 
 readings on line for the class. But it will also be open to addressing any 
 other texts that class members wish to bring along. Class will mostly be 
 discussion and dialogue. We will have to address all the prejudices about 
 prejudice in order to get down to the issue of structure. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/24/18791627.php
SUMMARY:A free class on the Structures of Racialization
LOCATION:The Omni Commons (in the Library Hall) \n4799 Shattuck Ave. (corner 48th 
 St. and Shattuck) \nOakland 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/24/18791627.php
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