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Notes to pages 116–130 ( 231 )


  1. Anderson, Imperative of Integration, pp. 3– 7.

  2. Charles W.  Mills, “White Supremacy as Sociopolitical System” and “White Supremacy
    and Racial Justice,” chs. 7 and 8 of Mills, From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and
    Black Radicalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

  3. See, for example, George Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American
    and South African History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981).

  4. But see John Roemer, A General Theory of Exploitation and Class (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
    University Press, 1982).

  5. Alan Wertheimer, Exploitation (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1996),
    pp. ix, 8.

  6. Gary A. Dymski, “Racial Inequality and Capitalist Exploitation,” in Kai Nielsen and
    Robert Ware, eds., Exploitation (Atlantic Highlands, NJ:  Humanities Press, 1997), pp.
    335– 47.

  7. For a classic discussion, see Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black
    Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; orig. ed. 1983).

  8. See the introductory essays by Ashley (“Woody”) Doane and Margaret Anderson in
    Doane and Eduardo Bonilla- Silva, eds., White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism
    (New York: Routledge, 2003).

  9. Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review 106 (1993):  1709–
    91; Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/ White Wealth:  A  New
    Perspective on Racial Inequality, 10th anniversary ed. (New  York:  Routledge, 2006; orig.
    ed. 1995); George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness:  How White People
    Profit from Identity Politics (Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1998); Linda Faye
    Williams, The Constraint of Race:  Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (University
    Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003); Lindsay G. Robertson, Conquest
    by Law:  How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
    (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was
    White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth- Century America (New York: W.
    W.  Norton, 2005); Meizhu Lui et  al., The Color of Wealth:  The Story Behind the U.S.
    Racial Wealth Divide (New  York:  New Press, 2006); Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by
    Another Name:  The Re- Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War
    II (New  York:  Doubleday, 2008); Daria Roithmayr, Reproducing Racism:  How Everyday
    Choices Lock in White Advantage (New York: New York University Press, 2014); Andre L.
    Smith, Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice: Black Tax (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/
    Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

  10. Sally Haslanger, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (New York: Oxford
    University Press, 2012).

  11. George M. Fredrickson, Racism:  A  Short History (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton Classics,
    2015; orig. ed. 2002). For an opposing view, see Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in
    Classical Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

  12. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I, trans. Ben Fowkes (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin and
    New Left Review, 1976), p. 280.

  13. See, for example, Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon, eds., Marx, Justice
    and History (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1980); Steven Lukes, Marxism
    and Morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

  14. Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New  York:  Routledge, 2008; orig. ed.
    1995); Karen Brodkin, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in
    America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998); Matthew Frye Jacobson,
    Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge,
    MA:  Harvard University Press, 1998); Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
    (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010).

  15. Slavery in the medieval Islamic world, which some scholars have argued differentiated
    black from non- black slaves, may be an exception: Bernard Lewis, Race and Slavery in the
    Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

  16. Lipsitz, Possessive Investment, p. 5.

  17. Oliver and Shapiro, Black Wealth/ White Wealth, p. 51.

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