Barbara J. Fields
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How the practice of "racecraft" produces the illusion of race
Excerpted from Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, written by Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields and published by Verso Books. A Tour of Racecraft The ideas of racecraft are pieced together in the ordinary course of everyday doing. Along the way, they intertwine with ideas that shape other aspects of American social life.
Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America
In this except from the influential essay "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America," Barbara J. Fields begins to trace the genealogy of American racial ideology. An excerpt from Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields, out now in a new edition. In 1988, a sports announcer in the United States lost his job because he enlarged indiscreetly—that is, before a television audience— upon his views about “racial” differences.
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