Open Wound
The Long View of Race in America
In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression. This racial system of interacting practices and ideas first justified black slavery, then, after the Civil War, other forms of coerced black labor, and, today, black poverty and unemployment. _x000B__x000B_At three historical moments, a crisis in the larger society opened political space for idealists to challenge the racial system: during the American Revolution, then during the irrepressible conflict ending in the Civil War, and, finally, during the Cold War and the colonial…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-09114-8
- EAN: 9780252091148
- Produktnummer: 20439046
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 515 KB
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