Neoliberal racism: the ‘Southern Strategy’ and the expanding geographies of white supremacy

Inwood, Joshua

doi:10.1080/14649365.2014.994670

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“…The exploitation of racial and spatial difference has been foundational to the development of capitalism at urban, regional, national, and global scales (Brahinsky, 2011;Gilmore, 2007;Inwood, 2015;Lowe, 2015;Robinson, 2000;Woods, 2000Woods, , 2017. As an analytical framework, racial capitalism brings distinct forms and logics of colonization together into a relational "global history of colonial modernity" (Morgensen, 2011, p. 65), organized around racial hierarchies (da Silva, 2007), and founded on the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; and wave upon wave of indentured immigrant laborers-including both racialized subjects from other colonies and White Europeans dispossessed of the means of production, who would ultimately enforce a White supremacist racial hierarchy.…”

Section: Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialismmentioning

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

Geography Compass

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Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, I propose that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes. As an analytical framework, racial capitalism considers how distinct forms of colonization, settler colonialism, and White supremacy function relationally as part of a unified system of capitalist accumulation built on the exploitation of racialized human and spatial difference. By focusing on UA's contributions to racial Othering, the racialization of space, and dispossession, on the one hand, and on struggles of resistance and self‐determination, on the other, this review attempts to sheds new light on the dialectical, “both/and” nature of UA, while also addressing recent calls to consider how settler colonial logics persist in the contemporary North American city.

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Section: Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialismmentioning

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

Geography Compass

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“…Within a U.S. context, the process of settler colonialism is related to the removal of Native Americans from the land and the imposition of labor systems (e.g., indentured servants, slavery, sharecropping, and prison‐industrial complex) to work the land (Bonds, ; Lawrence, ; Loyd, Mitchelson, & Burridge, ; Wolfe, ). This introduced into the United States a range of race connected practices from understandings of property (Harris, ), to the working of the U.S. political economy (Bonds, ; Du Bois, ; Inwood, ) as well as the role of firearms in U.S. society (Bogus, ). I argue these practices connect through an understanding of settler colonialism that views the U.S. settler state as a continuously unfolding system of empire that is partially enabled by the concept of white innocence.…”

Section: Interrogating Innocence: White Supremacy and Settler Studiesmentioning

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“It is the innocence which constitutes the crime”: Political geographies of white supremacy, the construction of white innocence, and the Flint water crisis

Inwood¹

2018

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Using the Flint, Michigan water crisis as a backdrop, this review piece explores the concept of white innocence. The concept of white innocence presents us with an analytic tool to understand the frustrating endurance of white supremacy within the U.S. settler state and how white supremacy operates through a range of geographically grounded practices. This paper makes an explicit link between work on settler colonialism and white innocence outlining how the burgeoning work on settler societies opens space to a productive engagement with the concept of innocence. I contend that white innocence as a concept needs to be more fully grounded in work that engages with settler colonialism and within the United States specifically. White innocence also inculcates the agency of whites in a society that is built through the explicit exploitation of persons of color as well as the way white institutions continue to expose persons of color to a range of negative impacts. This paper begins with a review of the literature on whiteness within geographic research. The last several years has seen a series of important interventions in the literature and geographers are increasingly turning to the concept of white supremacy to explain racism in 21st century U.S. society.

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“…My research responds to three questions: (1) how is diversity economized by the university; (2) how is this economization articulated through organizational discourse on diversity; and (3) how does the economization of diversity potentially reconfigure race and racial subjectivities? My in-depth focus on a single case follows a recent call from critical race scholars for a more precise analysis of how neoliberalism is raced, and how neoliberal practices produce racialized bodies (Inwood 2015;Roberts and Mahtani 2010). Centerning the dynamics within a single case study helps reveal the processes and contradictions structuring the relationship between neoliberalism and contemporary racial ideology, and provide 'flesh to the bone' for sociological theory (see Zamudio and Rios 2006).…”

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The Economization of Diversity

Thomas

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Through a case study of an ongoing diversity initiative at Diversity University (DU), a public, flagship university in the U.S. South, the author’s research advances understanding of the discursive relationship between neoliberalism and contemporary racial ideology. As part of a larger ethnographic project, the author draws on more than ten years worth of diversity discourse at DU to illuminate diversity’s economization: the process whereby specific formations of economic values, practices, and metrics are extended toward diversity as justification for DU’s efforts. The analysis responds to three questions: (1) How is diversity economized by the organization? (2) How is this economization articulated through organizational discourse on diversity? and (3) How does the economization of diversity potentially reconfigure race and racial subjectivities? The findings reveal three interrelated processes that facilitate diversity’s economization: diversity as investment, diversity metrics, and diversity as affective labor. Together these processes congeal and convert multicultural principles and practices into economic ones. Consequently, diversity’s economization recasts nonwhite racial subjectivity as human capital for DU and its white publics, minimizing and entrenching existing racial inequality in the process.

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Neoliberal racism: the ‘Southern Strategy’ and the expanding geographies of white supremacy

Cited by 80 publications

References 36 publications

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

“It is the innocence which constitutes the crime”: Political geographies of white supremacy, the construction of white innocence, and the Flint water crisis

The Economization of Diversity

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