White Reconstruction
Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
Published on 27. October 2020
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Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8232-8938-7 (ISBN)
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Winner, The Frantz Fanon Award for an Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought
We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial-colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts-from Freedmen's Bureau documents and the "Join LAPD" hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater's hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike-Dylan Rodriguez counter-narrates the long "post-civil rights" half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and "multiculturalist white supremacy."
Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodriguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.
We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial-colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts-from Freedmen's Bureau documents and the "Join LAPD" hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater's hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike-Dylan Rodriguez counter-narrates the long "post-civil rights" half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and "multiculturalist white supremacy."
Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodriguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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New edition
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
6 b/w illustrations
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
647 gr
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978-0-8232-8938-7 (9780823289387)
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Person
Dylan Rodriguez, Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, served as Chair of Ethnic Studies from 2009 to 2016, and as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021. He is the author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition. He is a founding member of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: "The Cause Is Effect": Inhabiting White Reconstruction 1
1 "I Used Her Ashes":
Multiculturalist White Supremacy/Counterinsurgency/Domestic War 35
2 "Let the Past Be Forgotten . . .":
Remaking White Being, from Reconstruction to Pacification 59
3 Goldwater's Tribal Tattoo:
On Origins and Deletions of Post-Raciality 107
4 "Civilization in Its Reddened Waters":
Anti-Black, Racial-Colonial Genocide and the Logic of Evisceration 135
5 "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer:
Domestic War and the Narratives of Carceral Reform 176
Epilogue: Abolitionist Imperatives 215
Notes 229
Index 281
Introduction: "The Cause Is Effect": Inhabiting White Reconstruction 1
1 "I Used Her Ashes":
Multiculturalist White Supremacy/Counterinsurgency/Domestic War 35
2 "Let the Past Be Forgotten . . .":
Remaking White Being, from Reconstruction to Pacification 59
3 Goldwater's Tribal Tattoo:
On Origins and Deletions of Post-Raciality 107
4 "Civilization in Its Reddened Waters":
Anti-Black, Racial-Colonial Genocide and the Logic of Evisceration 135
5 "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer:
Domestic War and the Narratives of Carceral Reform 176
Epilogue: Abolitionist Imperatives 215
Notes 229
Index 281