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- Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Duke University Press
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction: Past History
- pp. 1-18
- Part I: Stories
- 1. Did the Conk Rag Lose?
- pp. 21-46
- 2. The Waters of Death and Life
- pp. 47-70
- 3. Cockroach Racing
- pp. 71-88
- Part II: Culturing Words
- 4. Naming Troubles
- pp. 91-116
- 5. State Making
- pp. 117-136
- 6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger
- pp. 137-142
- Part III: Beyond
- 7. Living in the Beyond
- pp. 145-152
- Part IV: Living Contradictions
- 9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg
- pp. 175-194
- References
- pp. 215-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822375043
Related ISBN(s)
9780822359760, 9780822360087
MARC Record
OCLC
1139391165
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015