Machinery of Whiteness

Steve Martinot is Instructor Emeritus at the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance and Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida (both Temple). He is also the editor of two previous books, and translator of Racism by Albert Memmi. He has written extensively on the structures of racism and white supremacy in the US, as well as on corporate culture and economics, and leads seminars on these subjects in the Bay Area.

• Acknowledgments 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

"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