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Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields

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The Role of Race in Capitalism

In your book you write that the debacle of the bankers talking about the financial crisis rubbed the gloss from the justifications for inequality that prevailed since the 1980s. The welfare mother can no longer stand for what is not right with america and so my question is in terms of all these horrible things that have happened have been justified via via racism. Do you see some hope in people thinking getting that critical distance from racecraft that you've been talking about and being able to take collective action against the system?

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