Description
Book SynopsisAn extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United States
Trade Review"The Machinery of Whiteness is extremely interesting and engaging. Martinot's use of historical examples to support and accentuate the structure of racialization is illuminating. His explication of the disenfranchisement of blacks after the Civil War is excellent, as is his introduction of the concept of a para-political state. Martinot's book advances the literature by synthesizing the history of the development of the black-white divide and a racialized structure."
—Douglas George, University of Central Arkansas
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Motherhood and the Invention of Race
2. The Racialized State
3. A Structural Concept of Race
4. The Political Culture of Whiteness
5. The Boundaries of the United States and Immigration
6. The Dual-State Character of the United States
7. The Structures of Racialization
Notes
References
Index
