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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
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Racecraft
A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it, “at the center of any discussion of race in American life.” Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed. That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions.
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground
Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.
Slaves No More
Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.
Free at Last
Summary: Brings together letters, along with personal testimony, official transcripts, and other records documenting the story of how black Americans achieved their freedom.
Freedom: Volume 1, Series 1: The Destruction of Slavery
Contains primary source material.
Summary of Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields's Racecraft
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The practice of a double standard is the missing step between someone’s physical appearance and an invidious outcome. In a word, racism. #2 Minority is a verbal prop that slips its literal meaning and its core definition, which is quantitative. It is used to justify a dragnet in which police round up all the black and Hispanic men in Oneonta, New York, in 1992. #3 The will to classification is so fundamental to racecraft that it is impossible to understand American race relations without understanding it. #4 Visualize the Afro-American professor, this time in New York City, flagging down a taxi in 2008. The African driver spots a soaked white traveler, and asks if he can pick up another traveler as well. The white traveler jumps, his face showing the portrait of fear.
The South
A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. — New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation” — takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Through his personal history ...
Freedom
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage
In this controversial history the author tells the story of how the Civil Warand slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined theConfederacy in the end.
