Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina And The Shadow Of Civil Rights - 9780822359760

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In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his youth, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Tacking between past and present, Sider describes how political power, economic control, and racism inject chaos into the lives of ordinary people, especially African Americans, with surprising consequences. In addition to recounting his years working on voter registration in rural North Carolina, Sider makes connections between numerous issues, from sharecropping and deindustrialization to the recessions of the 1970s and 2008, the rise of migrant farm labor, and contemporary living-wage campaigns. Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions, or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived. They demonstrate that race is produced and exists in unpredictability, and that the transition from yesterday to tomorrow is anything but certain.


  • | Author: Gerald M. Sider
  • | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
  • | Publication Date: Nov 13, 2015
  • | Number of Pages: 248 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0822359766
  • | ISBN-13: 9780822359760
Author:
Gerald M. Sider
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Publication Date:
Nov 13, 2015
Number of pages:
248 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0822359766
ISBN-13:
9780822359760