Introduction “The Cause Is Effect”: Inhabiting White Reconstruction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction “The Cause Is Effect”: Inhabiting White Reconstruction 1
5. 1 “I Used Her Ashes”: Multiculturalist White Supremacy/ Counterinsurgency/Domestic War 35
6. 2 “Let the Past Be Forgotten . . .”: Remaking White Being, from Reconstruction to Pacification 59
7. 3 Goldwater’s Tribal Tattoo: On Origins and Deletions of Post-Raciality 107
8. 4 “Civilization in Its Reddened Waters”: Anti- Black, Racial- Colonial Genocide and the Logic of Evisceration 135
9. 5 “Mass Incarceration” as Misnomer: Domestic War and the Narratives of Carceral Reform 176
10. Epilogue. Abolitionist Imperatives 215
11. Notes 229
12. Index 281