{"id":38794,"date":"2014-12-11T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38794"},"modified":"2020-07-19T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:09:00","slug":"racecraft-the-soul-of-inequality-in-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38794","title":{"rendered":"Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1645-racecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verso Books<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2012<br \/>\n310 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781781683132<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 9781844679959<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9781844679942<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/authors\/1740-karen-e-fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Karen E. Fields<\/strong><\/a>, Independent Scholar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.columbia.edu\/faculty\/Fields.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Barbara J. Fields<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1645-racecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/versobooks-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/000003\/282\/racecraft-f1c6c1580d34a0cbcd634ae9bb25b434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tackling the myth of a post-racial society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most people assume that 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 otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call \u201cracecraft.\u201d And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>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. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people assume that 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 otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call \u201cracecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,394,20],"tags":[6358,1873,18707,18708,18709,7592],"class_list":["post-38794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-barbara-fields","tag-barbara-j-fields","tag-karen-e-fields","tag-karen-fields","tag-verso","tag-verso-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59991,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794\/revisions\/59991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}