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“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 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. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.

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.”

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The Trump-Vance ticket’s promotion of, what PBS News calls a “false racist rumor” is essentially an attempt to, “rally xenophobia in a very quick way,” as Sociology professor Anthony Ocampo put it. In fact, many are worried that we may begin to experience the kind of lethal violence we’ve seen rain down on Blacks across the nation during election seasons in earlier periods of American history. 

Kyrah Malika Daniels and Dianne M. Stewart at Religion Dispatches. This Is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness--The Racist History Of The Pet-Eating Conspiracy

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Just learned the term racecraft and that's exactly what you lot do when you talk about Black women and gender. Not fitting European gender binary has become: Black women don't fit because we are different and not instead of, we're being dehumanised as different to justify racism and discrimination

Black women are seen as masculine becomes, Black women must have masculine attributes and follows as, Black women's bodies ARE non-woman because we're dehumanised and masculinised. We become the problem instead of the racism

Racism isn't about truth about dehumanisation and abuse. They were making shit up as they went along. The people that made up race science weren't even doctors.

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

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Gentle reminder that racecraft and white supremacy are not unique features of the US. Racial class and caste systems permeate the entire world.

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"Many historians who acknowledge the exceptional one-sided colonial violence attribute it to racism. [Military historian John] Grenier argues that rather than racism leading to violence, the reverse occurred: the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. 'Successive generations of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, made the killing of Indian men, women, and children a defining element of their first military tradition and thereby part of a shared American identity. Indeed, only after seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Americans made the first way of war a key to being a white American could later generations of "Indian haters," men like Andrew Jackson, turn the Indian wars into race wars.' By then, the Indigenous peoples' villages, farmlands, towns, and entire nations formed the only barrier to the settlers' total freedom to acquire land and wealth."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, p. 59

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"Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America. And this fact becomes apparent when we examine the causes behind, not the consumption of racist ideas, but the production of racist ideas. What caused US senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina in 1837 to produce the racist idea of slavery as a 'positive good,' when he knew slavery's torturous horrors? What caused Atlanta newspaper editor Henry W. Grady in 1885 to produce the racist idea of 'separate but equal,' when he knew southern communities were hardly separate or equal? What caused think tankers after the presidential election of Barack Obama in 2008 to produce the racist idea of a postracial society, when they knew all those studies had documented discrimination? Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era's racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people."

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, p. 9

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View Transcript A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Dan talks to the ...

A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Dan talks to the sister scholars about the book; how Ta-Nehisi Coates’ primordialist view of white racism spells defeat; that racism serves the interest of capitalist class war, and endless debates over Rachel Dolezal distract us from that fact; and a whole ton more.