Jodi Rios
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501750465
- eISBN:
- 9781501750496
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501750465.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This book is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ...
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This book is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ethnic conflict that can be solved solely through legal, political, or economic means. This book argues that the historical and material production of blackness-as-risk is foundational to the historical and material construction of our society and certainly foundational to the construction and experience of metropolitan space. The book also considers how an ethics of lived blackness—living fully and visibly in the face of forces intended to dehumanize and erase—can create a powerful counter point to blackness-as-risk. Using a transdisciplinary methodology, the book studies cultural, institutional, and spatial politics of race in North St. Louis County, Missouri, as a set of practices that are intimately connected to each other and to global histories of race and race-making. As such, it adds important insight into the racialization of metropolitan space and people in the United States. The arguments presented in the book draw from fifteen years of engaged research in North St. Louis County and rely on multiple disciplinary perspectives and local knowledge in order to study relationships between interconnected practices and phenomena.Less
This book is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ethnic conflict that can be solved solely through legal, political, or economic means. This book argues that the historical and material production of blackness-as-risk is foundational to the historical and material construction of our society and certainly foundational to the construction and experience of metropolitan space. The book also considers how an ethics of lived blackness—living fully and visibly in the face of forces intended to dehumanize and erase—can create a powerful counter point to blackness-as-risk. Using a transdisciplinary methodology, the book studies cultural, institutional, and spatial politics of race in North St. Louis County, Missouri, as a set of practices that are intimately connected to each other and to global histories of race and race-making. As such, it adds important insight into the racialization of metropolitan space and people in the United States. The arguments presented in the book draw from fifteen years of engaged research in North St. Louis County and rely on multiple disciplinary perspectives and local knowledge in order to study relationships between interconnected practices and phenomena.
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520280861
- eISBN:
- 9780520959972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520280861.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
“Origin Stories about Segregationist Philanthropy” examines how the race for eugenics has been conflated with national scientific achievement in the study of South Africa as a modern nation. Thereby ...
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“Origin Stories about Segregationist Philanthropy” examines how the race for eugenics has been conflated with national scientific achievement in the study of South Africa as a modern nation. Thereby abetting the manufacture of white citizenship and transforming settlers into white people—as prophylaxis against travel writer Anthony Trollope’s 1877 prediction that South Africa would always be a “black man’s country.” While such South African exceptionalism is offered as a way of telling a particular domestic history, this erases South Africa’s imbrication in colonial science. A more thoroughgoing history of how foundations have marked blackness as the living standard of poverty in the process of industrialization is necessary. Thus, the chapter explains more about slavery and why African women’s production and reproduction must be spatially removed from what we understand as industrialization and, finally, why impoverished white people must come to stand in for the only opponents of class exploitation.Less
“Origin Stories about Segregationist Philanthropy” examines how the race for eugenics has been conflated with national scientific achievement in the study of South Africa as a modern nation. Thereby abetting the manufacture of white citizenship and transforming settlers into white people—as prophylaxis against travel writer Anthony Trollope’s 1877 prediction that South Africa would always be a “black man’s country.” While such South African exceptionalism is offered as a way of telling a particular domestic history, this erases South Africa’s imbrication in colonial science. A more thoroughgoing history of how foundations have marked blackness as the living standard of poverty in the process of industrialization is necessary. Thus, the chapter explains more about slavery and why African women’s production and reproduction must be spatially removed from what we understand as industrialization and, finally, why impoverished white people must come to stand in for the only opponents of class exploitation.
