Short description:

The book examines critical subject areas including family structure as the cause of inequality, the maintenance of intra-group ethnoracial hierarchies as a barrier to group solidarity, geography and histories of racial violence, and whiteness in organisations. 

Long description:

Recent efforts to advance conceptualisations of racial hierarchies have led to the emergence of new debates about the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of racism and racial domination. The chapters in this book address these questions by identifying both the mechanisms that produce racial hierarchies, and the actors that keep these hierarchies operational thereby anchoring the domination in its material manifestations, rather than subscribing to traditional theorisations.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in critical race scholarship, this volume offers innovative theoretical frameworks for understanding structural racism. The book examines critical subject areas including family structure as the cause of inequality, the maintenance of intra-group ethnoracial hierarchies as a barrier to group solidarity, geography and histories of racial violence, and whiteness in organisations. Drawing on empirical research from the United States and Australia, the collection provides concrete examples of how racial domination operates across different contexts and scales.

This book is essential reading for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners of race and racism studies, colonialism studies, critical race studies, family studies, organisational studies, political science, and anthropology. It offers new ways to name and theorise racial structure whilst providing actionable insights for those working towards racial justice. The essays in this volume were first published in the journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism 1. Rethinking racism again: theorizing the racial structure “for real” 2. Mechanisms, smoke and fun-house mirrors: when naming racism is not enough 3. The power of affective capital: rethinking emotions in racial domination 4. Whiteness and organizations: institutions, legitimacy, and hegemony 5. Through the looking glass: reexamining family structure’s contribution to racial inequality in life chances 6. Australian racial capitalism, Indigenous exploitation and the racial regime of recognition and reconciliation 7. Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: sundown towns and the durability of racialized public space 8. Black like this, not like that: how Afro-Latines navigate Black and Latine ethnoracial hierarchies in the U.S.