Open wound: the long view of race in America

In this boldly interpretive narrative, the author tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries old system of racial oppression. Before English colonization, Spanish and Portuguese conquerors enslaved American natives to produce for a European market. They saw the...

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1. Verfasser: Evans, William McKee 1923- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana [u.a.] Univ. of Illinois Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:In this boldly interpretive narrative, the author tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries old system of racial oppression. Before English colonization, Spanish and Portuguese conquerors enslaved American natives to produce for a European market. They saw their slaves become addicted to sugar, rum, and tobacco, and sicken and die in apocalyptic numbers. They began to import Africans, who survived the killer plantation diseases long enough to allow stable production, and a new kind of slavery was born, both market driven and defined as black. A century later, English planters adopted this slavery. They passed on to future generations a racial system of interacting practices and ideas. Its ideas first justified black slavery, then, after the Civil War, other forms of coerced black labor, and, today, black poverty and unemployment.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-320) and index
Beschreibung:xi, 330 S.
ISBN:9780252034275

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