The history of transportation in the United States is the spatialization of white supremacy to speak of transportation is to speak of race.

. From the original transportation policy of the Middle Passage to separate ut e!ual" to the white flight" of su ur anization# the condition of possi ility for the freedom and mo ility associated with transportation is the su $ugation of raced odies. %renman &' [Marc, executive director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission and was formerly senior policy advisor for civil
rights at the U S !epartment of "ransportation, "ransportation #ne$uality in the United States% & Historical 'verview, Human Rights Maga(ine )ol *+ ,o *, http%--www american.ar org-pu.lications-human/rights/maga(ine/home-human/rights/vol*+/0112 html3
"hree ma4or 5inds of infrastructure in the United States contri.ute to the separation of races% housing, education, and transportation &frican &mericans have made progress in the United States, .ut only from actual shac5les on slave ships to the economic shac5les of high gasoline prices, predatory lending, foreclosure, poor inner city schools, continuing 4o. discrimination, and regressive taxes

(i)il Society is founded upon a Master*Sla)e relationship that e+ploits and alienates the %lack %ody. Modernity is deri)ed from the middle passage# creating an ontological condition of lackness that is systematically e+posed to gratuitous )iolence ,ilderson -./. 67ran5 8 , 9rofessor of !rama : UC #rvine; <Red, White, and 8lac5% Cinema and the Structure of U S &ntagonisms= pg
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The polemic animating this research stems from (1) my reading of Native and Black American metacommentaries on Indian and Black subject positions ritten over the past t enty!three years and ( ) a sense of ho much that ork appears out of joint ith intellectual protocols and political ethics hich under rite political pra"is and socially engaged popular cinema in this epoch of multiculturalism and globali#ation$ The oman at the gates of %olumbia &niversity a aits an ans er$

The affirmati)e0s call for institutional action is ased out of the 1rammar of the Settler that upholds current antagonisms of anti2 lackness. The modernity of 3merica is defined y )iolence to sla)e# and theft of the sa)age0s land. Their call to action forecloses the possi ility of ethical analysis and crowds out !uestions of %lack and 4ed suffering. ,ilderson -./. 67ran5 8 , 9rofessor of !rama : UC #rvine; <Red, White, and 8lac5% Cinema and the Structure of U S &ntagonisms= pg
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'()N I 'A* a young student at %olumbia &niversity in Ne +ork there as a Black oman ho used to stand outside the gate and yell at 'hites, -atinos, and )ast and *outh Asian students, staff, and faculty as they entered the university$ . Though this is perhaps the most controversial and out!of!step claim of this book, it is, nonetheless, the foundation of the close reading of feature films and political theory that follo s$

,hite supremacy is a glo al modality of genocidal )iolence Sla)ery may ha)e ended in name# ut its operational logic continues to fester. 4eformist measures simply pro)ide fuel for ,hiteness 4odriguez 0// 6!ylan, 9h! in Cthnic Studies 9rogram of the University of California 8er5eley and &ssociate 9rofessor of Cthnic Studies at
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To crystalli#e hat I hope to be the potentially useful implications of this provocation to ard a retelling of the slavery!abolition story/ if e follo the narrative and theoretical trajectories initiated here, it should take little stretch of the historical imagination It is, at the very least, a remarkable and dreadful moment in the historical time of 'hite 0econstruction that a Black president has on office in an electoral landslide hile ell over a million Black people are incarcerated ith the over helming consent of

The alternati)e is to re$ect the affirmati)e as an act of urning down the structure of hierarchy that produces )iolence against the sla)e. Freedom is an illusion created y the shackles of ci)il society# and a andoning the pursuit for e!uality is the only way to reak down the way that whiteness maintains itself. Farley 0.5 6&nthony 9aul, 9rofessor of Eaw : 8oston College, <9erfecting Slavery=, ?-02-011B,
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What is to .e doneF Slavery is white;over;.lac5 White;over;.lac5 is death White;over;.lac5, death, then, is what the slave must .ecome to pursue its calling that is not a calling

Modern re)olutionary politics fail ecause they are ased on an assumpti)e logic that structures an indi)idual0s capacity for freedom around their social location. This is a dangerous form of metacommentary# ecause it ignores the su $ect position of the sla)e. 6nly the alternati)e allows for new political discourses to emerge. ,ilderson -./. 67ran5 8 , 9rofessor of !rama : UC #rvine; <Red, White, and 8lac5% Cinema and the Structure of U S &ntagonisms=;
pg 2;D; S@A The aim of this book is to embark on a paradigmatic analysis of ho dispossession is imagined at the intersection of (a) the most unflinching meditations (metacommentaries) on political economy and libidinal economy, (e$g$, 1ar"ism, as in the ork of Antonio Negri, and psychoanalysis, as in the ork of 2aja *ilverman), (b) the discourse of political common sense, and (c) the narrative and formal strategies of socially or politically engaged films$ But the orker3s essential incapacity (po ers hich cannot accrue to the orker, suffering as e"ploitation and alienation) is the essence of capacity, life itself, hen looked at through the eyes of the *lave$

State reform fails2 it looks to the go)ernment to ar itrate the in$ustice its police agents first perpetuated. 6nly radical criti!ue can shatter traditional concepts of racism. Martinot and Se+ton .7! 4prof at *an 5rancisco *tate &niversity446h7 in ethnic studies from &%
Berkeley, 7irector, African American *tudies at &% Irvine (*teve and 8ared, 9The Avant!garde of
http/;; $ocf$berkeley$edu;<marto;avantguard$htm;;1=7) hite supremacy,: In 1>>?, %ritical 0esistance/ Beyond the 6rison Industrial %omple", a national conference and strategy!session, reposed the @uestion of the relations bet een hite supremacy and state violence$ The language in hich e articulate our analyses doesn3t seem to allo for alternatives in practice$ )ven those ho take seriously the second possibility (violence as a rule) find that the language of alternatives and the terms of relevance are constantly dragged into the political discourse they seek to oppose, namely, that the system orks and is capable of reform$