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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Fields, Barbara J.
Fields, Karen E.

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 183976564X
ISBN13: 9781839765643
Publisher: Verso
Published: Feb 1 2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.

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