Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
The Dig
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The Role of Race in American History
Barbara and Karen Fields, welcome to the dig. I want to start by asking you to lay out the central argument of your book in some detail. Race is a prerequisite for racism, but it's the action or practice of racism that is really the motor at the historical roots of race. Racism being an action, it is acting on a double standard based on a scribed or putative ancestry.
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