The Abolition Of White Democracy
by Joel Olson
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Read in November, 2005
Possibly the most important political science book I've read in the last five years. Drawing on ideas of race advanced by Noel Ignatiev ("Race Traitor") and David Roediger ("The Wages of Whiteness"), Olson provides a compelling argument for the idea that the United States was not founded upon an idea of an ever-expanding democracy, but firmly on white-supremacist, racist democracy that must be uprooted if any true democratic ideals are to be reached.
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Read in January, 2005
excellent account of race in the U.S. post-slavery context. it only lacks a bit of broader context, i.e. how patterns of racialization in the U.S. were informed by broader hemispheric influences.
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