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Review Of Undoing The Knots: Five Generations Of American Catholic Anti-Blackness, Peter R. Gathje
Review Of Undoing The Knots: Five Generations Of American Catholic Anti-Blackness, Peter R. Gathje
The Journal of Social Encounters
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Review Of Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Charles Whitmer Wright
Review Of Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Charles Whitmer Wright
The Journal of Social Encounters
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The 1676 Project: Black And White Together In The U.S.A., Danny Duncan Collum
The 1676 Project: Black And White Together In The U.S.A., Danny Duncan Collum
The Journal of Social Encounters
America’s post-George Floyd racial reckoning has brought a new focus on the country’s history of enslavement, segregation and systemic racism. However, this reckoning has often failed to recognize that the roots of systemic racism lie in the need of the wealthy planters in colonial Virginia to divide the African and English indentured servants who constituted a majority threatening to elite power. Nor do contemporary versions of U.S. history always account for the persistent reoccurrence of class-based interracial movements, such as the late 19th century Populists, or their promise as a long-term solution to the country’s racial divides.