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Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights

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Description for Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights Paperback. Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360087
SKU
V9780822360087
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About Gerald M. Sider
Gerald M. Sider is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and the author of Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu, also published by Duke University Press. 

Reviews for Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
"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."
The Triangle Tribune
"... students said that Race Becomes Tomorrow significantly advanced their understanding of race in the United States. ... Read more

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