State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States

by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, João Costa Vargas, Moon-kie Jung

Book Overview

The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens. Uncovering the false promise of liberalism, State of White Supremacy reveals race to be a fundamental, if flexible, ruling logic that perpetually generates and legitimates racial hierarchy and privilege.

Racial domination and violence in the United States are indelibly marked by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804772193
• ISBN13: 9780804772198
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"