Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
The Dig
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The Class Dimension of Racecraft
Racism not only legitimates a class project but also obscures it, says author. Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's infamous book the bell curve was missed by mainstream critics because they were justifying class inequality, he writes. The focus though on their their racism at the exclusion of all else obscured the fact that they were making a that their overall argument was really about the degeneracy of poor people as a whole, she adds. "They're neo-genesis no doubt their racists," you write.
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