Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Author: Karen Fields
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1844679942
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Author: Karen Fields
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1844679942
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Author: Barbara J. Fields
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1781684383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people assume that 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.
Author: Mamie Garvin Fields
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1985-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780029105504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMamie Garvin Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1888. Though black, her family was gifted and she grew up not among house servants or sharecroppers but among artisans and professionals. In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on the wider social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth.
Author: Barbara Jeanne Fields
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300040326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.
Author: Thomas Powell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780822630227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'...one of the most thorough attempts to explain why racism is still with us in these closing years of the twentieth century.'-THE NEW ENGLAND REVIEW OF BOOKS
Author: Naomi Zack
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781566392655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, she discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature. Zack argues that black and white designations are themselves racist because the concept of race does not have an adequate scientific foundation. The "one drop" rule, originally a rationalization for slavery, persists today even though there have never been "pure" races and most American blacks have "white" genes. Exploring the existential problems of mixed race identity, she points out how the bi-racial system in this country generates a special racial alienation for many Americans. Ironically suggesting that we include "gray" in our racial vocabulary, Zack concludes that any racial identity is an expression of bad faith. Author note: Naomi Zack is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. She herself is of mixed race: Jewish, African American, and Native American.
Author: Adolph Reed Jr.
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1620977176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Reed leaves no topic untouched, from the myth that there exists a particular kind of “Black Anti-Semitism,” to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories. Adolph Reed Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American politics. These essays illustrate why Reed is “the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender” (Katha Pollitt). Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left—out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.
Author: Toure Reed
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-02-25
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1786634406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The most brilliant historian of the black freedom movement” reveals how simplistic views of racism and white supremacy fail to address racial inequality—and offers a roadmap for a more progressive, brighter future (Cornel West, author of Race Matters). The fate of poor and working-class African Americans—who are unquestionably represented among neoliberalism’s victims—is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans. Here, Reed contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by a discourse that equates entrepreneurialism with freedom and independence. This, ultimately, insists on divorcing race and class. In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives Matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. The culprit, however, is not the sway of a metaphysical racism or the modern survival of a primordial tribalism. Instead, it can be traced to far more comprehensible forces, such as the contradictions in access to New Deal era welfare programs, the blinders imposed by the Cold War, and Ronald Reagan's neoliberal assault on the half-century long Keynesian consensus.
Author: Manning Marable
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0429976852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough public appearances, radio and television interviews, and his many articles and books, Manning Marable has become one of America's most prominent commentators on race relations and African-American politics. Speaking Truth to Power brings together for the first time Marable's major writings on black politics, peace, and social justice.The book traces the changing role of race within the American political system since the Civil Rights Movement. It also charts the author's striking evolution of political ideas, moving toward a political analysis of multicultural democracy, social justice, and egalitarian pluralism.
Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011-03-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1439902577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangements.