Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism.
So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday think.
Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft." And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of Inequality in American life.
Fields and historian Barbara J.
Sociologist Karen E.
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism