Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 7-1-2017
Journal / Book Title
Social sciences
Abstract
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.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6030084
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Singh, Vikash, "Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism" (2017). Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 23.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sociology-facpubs/23
Published Citation
Singh, Vikash. "Race, the Condition of Neo-Liberalism." Social Sciences 6, no. 3 (2017): 84.
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