Steve Martinot: 3 books

In this follow up to his book, The Rule of Racialization—which considered the way class structure is formed in the U.S.—Steve Martinot now examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. In The Machinery of Whiteness,...

This book is an extended argument for the abolition of prisons as such. Its reasoning is based not on sociological considerations, such as the fact that they don’t work, but rather on ethical and political principles. I look at both the ethics that prison violates, and the ethics that society adopts...

White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a “good white” is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical whiteness...