October 10, 2008
Race Will Survive the Obama Phenomenon
The idea of race emerged amid evolving processes in which the government, the economy, and the society sorted people into very different relationships to property, management, punishment, and citizenship, according to fictive biological categories. Great struggles, peaking in the 1860s and 1870s, and again a century later, forced important changes. But those struggles lost momentum and unity before effecting other political economic changes that might have decisively disconnected color from
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