Princeton University Press
The Anthropology of White Supremacy
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An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropology
White supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites. Anthropology has been shaped by—and has helped to shape—white supremacy, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding this system at a global scale. The Anthropology of White Supremacy gathers original essays from a diverse, international group of anthropologists to explore how this phenomenon works both within anthropology and in cultural and political structures around the world.
The book features historical and ethnographic analysis about Brazil, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States, and addresses the ways white supremacy impacts a broad range of issues, including finance, advertising and media representations, militarism, police training, migration, and development.
The Anthropology of White Supremacy demonstrates not only how anthropology can help us to better comprehend white supremacy, but also how the discipline can help us begin to dismantle it.
The contributors include Omolade Adunbi, Samar Al-Bulushi, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Michael L. Blakey, Mitzi Uehara Carter, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Celina de Sá, Vanessa Díaz, Britt Halvorson, Faye V. Harrison, Sarah Ihmoud, Anthony R. Jerry, Darryl Li, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Christopher A. Loperena, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Jemima Pierre, Jean Muteba Rahier, Laurence Ralph, Renya K. Ramirez, Junaid Rana, Joshua Reno, Rhea Rahman, Jonathan Rosa, Shalini Shankar, Shannon Speed, and Maria Dyveke Styve.
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“This brilliant and timely collection makes a tremendous contribution to anthropology and many other fields well beyond it. Required reading that is forceful and compelling in its epistemological and political interventions, this is radical and transformative knowledge production at its finest.”—J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty
“The Anthropology of White Supremacy is right on time. This volume brilliantly reveals how the histories and infrastructures of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery live in the present in multifaceted ways—and how the discipline of anthropology is at the center of this story. A must-read for any student of humanity.”—Deborah A. Thomas, author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation
“This volume provides a sustained and systemic critique and unmaking of the raciological thinking of white supremacy that is the foundation of anthropology. The essays open new arenas of thought and analytical practices to enact a powerful rupture in the discipline that can only be bridged by its total reinvention.”—Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom
“This important collection offers a detailed picture of what global white supremacy looks like through the eyes of anthropologists. It is both an indictment of the discipline and an illustration of what a critical anthropology of white supremacy can do.”—Sherene H. Razack, author of Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism
“The Anthropology of White Supremacy offers a formidable challenge to the ways that anthropologists have studied race while neglecting the discipline’s attachments to white supremacy. It will undoubtedly serve as an essential reference and pedagogical mainstay for anthropologists in the decades to come.”—Ryan Cecil Jobson, University of Chicago
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INTRODUCTION Anthropology of White Supremacy
1 - Section I Anthropology as White Supremacy
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1 The Blinding Light of Race and the Nature Politic
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2 Africanist Ethnography: race, power, and the politics of otherness
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3 Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy, Making It Plain
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4 Racial Flyover Zones: white supremacy and the politics of field research
56 - Section II Empire, Colonialism, and White Supremacy
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5 The Persistence of White Supremacy: indigenous women migrants and the structures of settler capitalism
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6 The Obscuring Effect: whiteness in the celebration of black performance in Senegal
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7 Many Shades of White: white supremacy and whiteness in south Asian philosophies
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8 Early European Feminism at the Service of Colonialism in the Belgian Congo
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9 Recognizing Blackness and Mestizaje as a Methodology for White Supremacy in Mexico
123 - Section III White Supremacy as Global Currency
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10 The White Supremacy of Mining Finance in South Africa
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11 Extractivism as Whiteness: the racial construction of oil enclaves in Nigeria
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12 Nothing Sells Like Whiteness: white supremacy, diversity, and American advertising
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13 Raciontologies: reconceptualizing racialized enactments and the reproduction of white supremacy
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14 “Experience the Wonder” the north, the nordic and white supremacy
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15 White Supremacist Ways of Knowing Africa: anthropology and Muslim development in Mali
205 - Section IV Militarized Geographies of White Supremacy
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16 Molding White Fascist Intimacies into American Police Cadet Bodies
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17 Militarized White Supremacy and Black GI Solidarity in Okinawa
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18 American Supremacy: reflections on the racial logics of asylum in us immigration court
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19 Securing Paradise: colonial whiteness and the geopolitics of nation-branding in the age of “terror”
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20 The US Criminal In/Justice System and the International Security State
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21 Geographies of Blackness in Guantánamo Memoirs
295 - Section V Toward an Anthropology of Liberation
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22 The Resurgent Far Right and the Black Feminist Struggle for Social Democracy in Brazil
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23 On Love, the Palestinian Way: kinship, care, and abolition in Palestinian feminist praxis
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24 Fighting White Supremacy and the Settler Colonialocene
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AFTERWORD Toward an Anthropology of Liberation
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Editors’ acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Index
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A NOTE ON THE TYPE
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