Concrete and Abstract Racial Domination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Preston (0000-0003-1219-4108, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-125 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2010.2.2.115 |
| OpenAlex | W2139092484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 14 |
The debate between Mike Cole and David Gillborn which has raged in Power and Education and elsewhere is indicative of a widening schism between Marxism and critical race theory. To describe this debate as orientated around the status of ‘race’ or ‘class' as the central object of social theory, such as in the current debate about the ‘white working class' in education, is unhelpful. Rather than see race and class as interdependent systems of concrete domination (where one group, or class, oppress another), this article examines how capitalism brings about an abstract system of domination by race (abstract racial domination). Using the work of Marx, Postone and Du Bois, the article considers that race as capital rather than humanity as racialised labour, is specific to capitalist modes of production. Racialised bodies are already capitalised as ‘tertium quid’ – a Du Boisian ‘third thing’ rather than solely as labour or capital. Whites are the ‘small masters' of ‘sham capital’ (whiteness) but are dominated by their own (perceived and socially constructed) phenotype. In terms of praxis, the article argues that critical pedagogies from both critical race and Marxist strands should work towards the abolition of whiteness as a manifestation of capital
Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Critical race theory · Critical theory · Humanity · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Praxis · Race (biology · Schism · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Political theory and Gramsci
Whiteness as Technology of Affect
The (un)equal university
A tradition in ceaseless motion
Why the critical race theory concept of ‘White supremacy’ should not be dismissed by neo-Marxists
A prolegomenon to a critical race theoretical Marxism
Documenting the Discourse of a Hip Dixie, or, How Do We Speak of the South
Neoliberal policy as racism in secondary education England and Germany
Emergency preparedness as public pedagogy
Critical race theory in education, Marxism and abstract racial domination
For whose benefit? Black and Minority Ethnic training programmes in higher education institutions in England, UK
Racial capitalism, uneven development, and the abstractive powers of race and money
Feeling Race
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
Whiteness as Property
From Class to Race
Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory in Education? A Reply to Mike Cole's ‘the Color-Line and the Class Struggle’
The Color-Line and the Class Struggle
The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain
Mastered by the Clock
Critical Race Theory comes to the UK
Flagging' the Skin
The zombie commodity
Mastered by the Clock
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |