(Library ebook) Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
♛ Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields ♛
| #33784 in Books | Verso | 2014-03-04 | 2014-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.90 x5.40l,.90 | File Name: 1781683131 | 310 pages | Verso
||39 of 40 people found the following review helpful.| Racecraft: Well crafted|By Tyrell Stewart|I'm a pretty big fan of this book. Racecraft has two central arguments. The first argument is that race and understandings of race operate in very similar ways to witchcraft. Meaning that race is used to explain different societal problems and historical events because it seems like a commonsense explanation. Second, the authors argu||“It’s not just a challenge to racists, it’s a challenge to people like me, it’s a challenge to African-Americans who have accepted the fact of race and define themselves by the concept of race.”|—Ta-Nehisi Coat
Most 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, po...
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