Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Historical overviews
- 1 Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime
- 2 American diversity and the 2000 census
- 3 Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas
- Part II Informal social networks
- Part III Formal structures
- Part IV Political institutions and processes
- Part V Normative analysis
- Author index
- Subject index
- References
3 - Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Historical overviews
- 1 Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime
- 2 American diversity and the 2000 census
- 3 Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas
- Part II Informal social networks
- Part III Formal structures
- Part IV Political institutions and processes
- Part V Normative analysis
- Author index
- Subject index
- References
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter I argue that there are four modes of ethno-somatic stratification in Europe and the Americas: the North American mode of binary mobilization, the Afro-Caribbean mode of pluralistic underdevelopment, the North European mode of proletarian incorporation, and the Latin mode of hegemonic blanqueamiento or whitening. Each mode refers to a unique configuration of ethno-racial ideology, ethno-demographic mix, ethno-class stratification, and level of societal racialization. Each is the product of distinctive socio-historical trajectories, as well as modern economic, political, and migratory processes. All four modes will be briefly outlined, but because of space constraints and the special interests of this volume, the paper will concentrate on the first three modes mentioned above.
The paper begins with a demographic portrait of the black diaspora populations circa 2000. We then move to an analysis of the broad patterns of adjustment by the post-diasporic populations of African-ancestry people in the Americas. Part three discusses the origins and formation of the three modes of the Americas. The fourth, and major, part of the chapter discusses the North European ethno-somatic mode then focuses on the nature and interactions between the three modes of special interest: the North Caribbean, Afro-American, and the British version of the North Atlantic. We end with some concluding observations.
A demographic overview
Somewhere around 2000–3 some 164,208,800 persons of whole or part-African ancestry lived in Europe and the Americas. In comparative global terms, the African-ancestry diaspora population is not especially large.
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