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45 Sw. L. Rev. 897 (2015-2016)
An Inquiry into White Supremacy, Sovereignty, and the Law

handle is hein.journals/swulr45 and id is 919 raw text is: AN INQUIRY INTO WHITE SUPREMACY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE LAW David P. Waggoner* When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white-supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involved coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they profess to wish to see eradicated.' I. INTRODUCTION ............................................... 898 II. THE STATE OF NATURE ........................................ 899 III. THE STATE OF SOCIETY......................... .......... 905 IV. THEORY: THE SACRED AND THE SOVEREIGN .................. 908 V. PRAXIS: LAW ENFORCEMENT .................................... 909 VI. TOWARDS A COUNTER ONTOLOGY.................................. 911 VII. CONCLUSION........................................... 912 Critical race theory has produced entire fields of knowledge to analyze, critique and understand racism. Inspired by that discipline, this paper theorizes the current state(s) of affairs and the extant relationship of people * Managing Attorney, Homeless Action Center, Berkeley, California; B.A. 2002 University of Louisville; J.D. 2005 Golden Gate University School of Law; M.A. 2016 San Francisco State University. I am indebted to many friends and colleagues for their invaluable support and conversations over the years which inspired this paper, especially Josu6 Argiielles, Anne Befu, Harry Britt, Mahnani Clay, Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, Teague Gonzilez, Katherine Gordy, Ron Hochbaum, Jack Jackson, James Martel, Kerry McLean, Jonathan Eli Melgar, Brian Rangel, Carrie Rosenbaum, Renee Sanchez, Rebecca Solnit, Francisco Valdes, and Patricia Wall. 1. bell hooks, Overcoming White Supremacy: A Comment, in OPPRESSION, PRIVILEGE AND RESISTANCE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RACISM SEXISM AND HETEROSEXISM 112, 113 (Lisa Heldke, et al. eds., 2004). 897

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