State of White Supremacy

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 Supremacyreveals 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 its origin and ongoing development as an empire-state. The widespread misrecognition of the United States as a liberal nation-state hinges on the twin conditions of its approximation for the white majority and its impossibility for their racial others. The essays in this book incisively probe and critique the U.S. racial state through a broad range of topics, including citizenship, education, empire, gender, genocide, geography, incarceration, Islamophobia, migration and border enforcement, violence, and welfare.

Moon-Kie Jung is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Joo H. Costa Vargas is Associate Professor in the Center for African and African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Professor of Sociology at Duke University.