Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Violence, White Supremacy, and Anti-Black Violence in America
This chapter explores the use of violence to control labor, its influence on the treatment of African Americans, divisions of skill, race, and gender within the working class, verbal battles between white and black lawmakers, and the struggle to understand the system of violence and complicity. The speaker also mentions their current project on loving couples during the slavery and anti-slavery era.
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