Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism.
That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions..
That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality.
So pervasive are the devices of Racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of Racecraft itself goes unnoticed.
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
