Black Scare / Red Scare Quotes

“Hoover is a central figure in the Black Scare / Red Scare Longue Durée. His hatred of working-class and labor dissidents, Black and white alike, fueled his collaboration with congressional committees in their anticommunist crusades and portended the use of hysteria to legitimate future repression”
― Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

“The Black Scare / Red Scare Longue Durée describes the joint and recursive unfolding of the Black Scare and the Red Scare starting in the midst of World War I and continuing through the early Cold War. Here, Blackness and radicalism were treated as vectors of subversion as the United States became the leading capitalist hegemon through methods of superexploitation, expropriation, and war—and their discursive legitimation.”
― Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

“Black Scare was a means of preserving racial antagonism, hierarchy, and ordering instead of improving the social and material conditions that produced them.”
― Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States