economic stats (as if people mattered)

Gary Ashwill gna at duke.edu
Sun Nov 12 20:09:58 PST 2000


on 11/12/00 12:09 PM, Carrol Cox at cbcox at ilstu.edu wrote:


> In reference to racism (and *all* racism in the United States is derivative
> from racism focused on blacks), quibbles are objectively defenses of racism.

The context (arguing about "racism" suffered by Europeans) partly justifies this overstatement, but not completely. There are different kinds of racism in the U.S., and not all of them can be reduced to versions of white-on-black oppression--like, most obviously, the treatment of Native Americans. There are connections, but anti-black and anti-Indian racism each has its own historical trajectory, its own material underpinnings (labor vs. territory), its own logic.



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