I was recently reading (listening to) an article by Roediger, & he tries to shuffle Fields aside in a brief footnote. "White Skin Privilege" is a weird road to nowhere.
Carrol
Doug Henwood:
> On May 28, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I should state again, as I have in the past, the principle at
work
> > in my examples. Racism does not cause Stop & Frisk; Stop and Frisk
causes
> > (generates and regenerates) racist ideology. In the last instance
practice
> > is always prior to and generative of theory as well as the pseudo-theory
of
> > ideology. Miles Jackson has also written on this frequently.
>
> Yes. Or, as Barbara Fields says, racism isn't an attitude, it's a set of
practices.
>
> Carrol, I know you have a hard time reading these days but I bet you'd
like
> the book Fields did with her sister Karen Fields, Racecraft. I interviewed
> Barbara about the book a while back - you might like listening:
>
> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S130214
>
> Doug
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