Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the SouthFeaturing a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public intellectuals of the 19th century, is as timely and radical today as it was when it was first published. “The preeminent Black journalist of his age” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of The Black Church) and an early agitator for civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune astutely and compellingly analyzes the relationship between capitalism and racism in the United States. He reveals that the country’s racial hierarchy has been part of our national fabric since the first European set foot here and is rooted in a much larger system of economic exploitation. He argues that in order for the United States to realize its founding ideals and end racial discrimination, this system must be dismantled, reparations made, and labor fairly remunerated. Fortune’s passionate analysis and radical vision of the United States will force you to rethink what America could have been if his arguments had been heeded in the 1880s and what must be done for us to move forward as a unified nation. |
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... hand the prejudices of white society.”8 In my view, these assessments obscure what is most original and important about Black and White. Having been a slave and having seen the freedpeople reduced to debt-peonage throughout the South ...
... hand the prejudices of white society.”8 In my view, these assessments obscure what is most original and important about Black and White. Having been a slave and having seen the freedpeople reduced to debt-peonage throughout the South ...
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... hands of white southerners. Drawing on his own experience as a slave and survivor of Reconstruction's aftermath, Fortune offers the stark claim that, after emancipation, African Americans in the South experienced “a slavery more odious ...
... hands of white southerners. Drawing on his own experience as a slave and survivor of Reconstruction's aftermath, Fortune offers the stark claim that, after emancipation, African Americans in the South experienced “a slavery more odious ...
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... hands of a “privileged class,” whose profits derive from the exploitation of working people who are driven to the brink of starvation even in the nation's wealthiest cities. Fortune is alert to the evolving character of this economic ...
... hands of a “privileged class,” whose profits derive from the exploitation of working people who are driven to the brink of starvation even in the nation's wealthiest cities. Fortune is alert to the evolving character of this economic ...
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... hands (141). Any person cultivating his or her own land should be permitted to continue farming—but the government should declare that “all vacant land was free to settlement upon condition of cultivation” (152). Fortune emphasizes that ...
... hands (141). Any person cultivating his or her own land should be permitted to continue farming—but the government should declare that “all vacant land was free to settlement upon condition of cultivation” (152). Fortune emphasizes that ...
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 19 |
Section 5 | 28 |
Section 6 | 38 |
Section 7 | 56 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 10 | 80 |
Section 11 | 90 |
Section 12 | 98 |
Section 13 | 109 |
Section 14 | 123 |
Section 15 | 136 |
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 155 |
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