Abstract

WACQUANT, Loïc. Resolving the problem with “race”. Sociologia [online]. 2023, vol.45, pp.127-154.  Epub Aug 15, 2023. ISSN 0872-3419.  https://doi.org/10.21747/08723419/soc45f1.

This article sketches a neo-Bourdieusian framework for rethinking racial domination. It proposes that we need to historicize the notion of “race”; to dislodge the United States from its Archimedean position; to forsake the logic of the trial; and to disaggregate ethnoracial phenomena into the “elementary forms” of racial domination, categorization, discrimination, segregation, seclusion, and violence. This approach makes it possible to grasp “race” as a denegated modality of ethnicity and to uncover how a system of ethnoracial classification is mapped onto a system of ethnoracial stratification, that is, to grasp “race” as a particular modality of “group-making.”

Keywords : Racial domination; Ethnicity; Racialisation; Bourdieu.

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