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This book confronts these basic questions through a remarkable dialogue between the French philosopher Etienne Balibar, and the American historian and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Their debate challenges commonly held notions of racism as a throwback to the xenophobias of past societies and communities. Instead, it is analysed as a social relation structurally tied to present social systems and the internal contradictions of the nation-state.
Balibar and Wallerstein emphasize the modernity of racism, and the critical importance of its relation to contemporary capitalism, in a period where social conflict is tied to the alarming rise of nationalism and chauvinism.
Etienne Balibar teaches philosophy at the University of Paris I. He is the author, with Louis Althusser, of Reading Capital. Immanuel Wallerstein is director of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York. His books include a three-volume study, The Modern World-System, and Historical Capitalism (Verso).
1991
310 pages
Cloth
86091 327 9
$60
Paper
0 86091 542 5
US$19
