Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

Book Overview

Tackling the myth of a post-racial society

Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life."

Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781683131
• ISBN13: 9781781683132
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"