Community control rhetoric can serve conservative demobilization as readily as liberation

Evidence

As the 1992 Los Angeles riots showed, urban revolt is now a multiracial phenomenon: black, brown, and even a bit white, and with Asians often targeted along with whites (Rutten 1992; Gooding- Williams 1993; Kim 2008). What is “nationalist” about racebased social movements is a matter of considerable ambiguity and debate. Ghetto community control demands have proved subject to quite moderate (or “reformist”) interpretation, besides proving to be at best “too little, too late” as key decisions about the cities’ fate are made elsewhere. There is nothing inherently democratic about “community control”; it should be remembered that Richard Nixon was a major proponent of afÏrmative action, community control, and black capitalism, all of which he rearticulated to serve as “divide and conquer” strategies for the diffusion and demobilization of the black power move- distinctions. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 100

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault claims on race-based social movements and their fracturing; echoes how demands can be rearticulated by the very structures they challenge. — connects to: Apple’s liberation rhetoric inaugurated a more powerful control society — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 93