First published as Race, nation, classe: les identites ambigues
by Editions La Decouverte, Paris 1988
This translation first published by Verso 1991 Editions La Decouverte 1988 English-language edition Verso 1991 All rights reserved Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London WI V 3HR USA: 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291 Verso is the imprint of New Left Books British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Balibar, Etienne Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities. I. Title II. Wallerstein, Immanuel, 1930- 305.8 ISBN 0-86091-327-9 ISBN 0-86091-542-5 pbk US Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Balibar, Etienne, 1942- [Race, nation, classe. English] Race, nation, class: ambiguous identities I Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein: translation by Chris Turner. p. em. Translation of: Race, nation, classe. ISBN 0-86091-327-9. -ISBN 0-86091-542-5 (pbk.) I. Racism. 2. Nationalism. 3. Social classes. 4. Social conflict. L Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930- . II. Title. HT 152l-B3313 1991 305.8-dc20 Typeset by Leaper & Gard Ltd, Bristol Printed and bound in Finland by Werner Soderstrom Oy l I 1\111\11111\\\\\1\\\ \Ill \\11II 1\111\ II' II \1\1\\\1\\1\\ I I 3 9091 00571187 8 ; -<" Contents Preface Etienne Balibar Part I Universal Racism 1 Is There a 'Neo-Racism'? Etienne Balibar '( 2 )The Ideological of Universalism versus Racism and Sexism Immanuel Wallerstein 3 \Racism and Nationalism / Etienne Ba/ibar Part II The Historical Nation The Construction of Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity Immanuel Wallerstein 5 The Nation Form: History and Ideology Etienne Balibar /-6 Household Structures and Labour-Force Formation in the Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein Part Ill Classes: Polarization and Overdetermination 7 Class Conflict in the Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein " v 1 15 17 29 37 69 71 86 107 113 115