[lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 8 21:02:35 PST 2004



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> My question is about the recent period. Do race and
> ethnicity remain
> important tools of bourgeois hegemony even today?
>

Yes. WEB DuBois said at the beginning of the 20th century that the color line was The problem of that century. It remains so. To this you have to add the regional divide between the North and South -- the scars of the civil war are unhealed. Race is key to this. The best book on this is Mike Davis' 20 year old Prisoners of the American Dream.

jks

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