David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State. London:
Blackwell, 2002, 319 pages, ISBN 0-631-19919-5, $66.95.
Howard Winant, The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy
Since World War II. New York: Basic Books, 2001, 428 pages, ISBN
0-465-04340-2, $32.00.
Most American social scientists interpret racism as an individual
malady and miss, ignore, or simply do not believe in the institutional
and global nature of “White supremacy” (Mills 1997). Two limitations that ensue from this
myopia are, first, the assumption that societies are not racialized
entities (for a critique, see Bonilla-Silva
1997) and, second, a high degree of analytical
provincialism—most studies by American scholars are narrow in
scope and often are confined to the United States (for early
exceptions, see Cox 1948, 1959; Du Bois 1920, 1945).