5. Separate and unequal: big government conservatism and the racial state

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Constituting the u.s. empire-state and white supremacy: the early years 1
5. Part 1. Genealogies of racial rule
6. 1. Liberalism and the racial state 27
7. 2. White supremacy as substructure: toward a genealogy of a racial animus, from “reconstruction” to “pacification” 47
8. 3. On (not) belonging: why citizenship does not remedy racial inequality 77
9. Part 2. Politics of privilege and punishment
10. 4. The best education for some: race and schooling in the united states today 93
11. 5. Separate and unequal: big government conservatism and the racial state 110
12. 6. Neoliberal paternalism race and the new poverty governance 130
13. 7. The case of Ben Laguer and the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 158
14. Part 3. Territory and terror
15. 8. Not a citizen, only a suspect: racialized immigration law enforcement practices 189
16. 9. The language of terror: panic, peril, racism 211
17. 10. Unmasking the state: racial/gender terror and hate crimes 229
18. 11. The black diaspora as genocide: Brazil and the united states— a supranational geography of death and its alternatives 243
19. Notes 273
20. References 287
21. Contributors 325
22. Index 329