Eric Beckman on Nostr: From npub1g4l2j…e9hpj #SCOTUS I want to highlight Chief Justice Roberts's avoidance ...
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I want to highlight Chief Justice Roberts's avoidance of racism as a prime example of "racecraft," the term coined by the historians Karen and Barbara Fields to describe the transmutation of a set of actions (racism) into a set of qualities or characteristics (race).
Racecraft, the Fieldses write in "Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America," "transforms racism, something an aggressor does, into race, something the target is, in a sleight of hand that is easy to miss."
#SCOTUS
I want to highlight Chief Justice Roberts's avoidance of racism as a prime example of "racecraft," the term coined by the historians Karen and Barbara Fields to describe the transmutation of a set of actions (racism) into a set of qualities or characteristics (race).
Racecraft, the Fieldses write in "Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America," "transforms racism, something an aggressor does, into race, something the target is, in a sleight of hand that is easy to miss."