Question

what does this mean “this normalized war also operates through the infrapolitics of everyday life, through a series of mini-assaults that convince each one of us to stay in our place.”?

Answer 1

Infrapolitics can be described as everyday and hidden behaviours of resistance, that have a culimative impact on power relations between the majority and minority communities. These are communicated through conversations, jokes, songs, folklore, theft, foot-dragging and other daily acts that influence the maintenance of the existing status of racial and ethnic inequality. It appears that through these infrapolitics, minority communities are under assault because of stereotypes and images that are imposed upon them and encourage the minority communities to abide by them.