Ebook {Epub PDF} Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields

 · No one has better articulated why race cannot serve as the starting point for discussions about inequality in the United States — and what we miss when they are — than Barbara and Karen Fields, authors of the book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Barbara and Karen were interviewed for Jacobin last week by Jason Farbman, a member of the International Socialist . Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. In this myth-busting reflection, the sociologist Karen E. Fields and the historian Barbara J. Fields argue the opposite: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft".  · Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. 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 Fields take seriously the reasoning and belief in witchcraft and reveal the processes that conflate race with racism as a "social alchemy" (p. ). As such, Racecraft presents a template for understanding how the "double standard" of racism, and not ancestry, is an ideological ritual creation of inequality in the United States. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. In this myth-busting reflection, the sociologist Karen E. Fields and the historian Barbara J. Fields argue the opposite: the practice of racism produces the. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. by Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields. Details. Author Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields. Publisher Verso. Publication Date Section New Titles - Paperback / Sociology.

No one has better articulated why race cannot serve as the starting point for discussions about inequality in the United States — and what we miss when they are — than Barbara and Karen Fields, authors of the book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. In this myth-busting reflection, the sociologist Karen E. Fields and the historian Barbara J. Fields argue the opposite: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft". Fields and Fields take seriously the reasoning and belief in witchcraft and reveal the processes that conflate race with racism as a “social alchemy” (p. ). As such, Racecraft presents a template for understanding how the “double standard” of racism, and not ancestry, is an ideological ritual creation of inequality in the United States.