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Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism

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  • Vikash Singh

    (Department of Sociology, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA)

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This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault’s seminars, Society Must be Defended , and Birth of Bio-politics . Insofar as “race” cannot be understood as a discrete category outside its social, economic, moral, and political embeddedness in liberalism, I argue that methodological individualism and expectations of high-specialization constrain the theorization of race in U.S. scholarship. Racial lines will continue to be (re)excavated, borrowed, or inscribed afresh to channel, reinforce, and institutionalize the social violence that neo-liberalism must unleash.

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  • Vikash Singh, 2017. "Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:6:y:2017:i:3:p:84-:d:106609
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