The White Racial Frame Quotes

“Historical events may stay in the collective records of memory, or they may be allowed to deteriorate, slowly or rapidly, through the overt choices of the powerful. The latter usually seek to suppress or weaken collective memories of societal oppression, and to construct positive and often fictional memories of that history.”
― Joe R. Feagin, The White Racial Frame Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing

“The rise of Western capitalism is rooted in the global seizing of the land, resources, and labor of people of color by violent means. Commercial and industrial capitalism develops over this era because of the expanding Atlantic system of slavery.”
― Joe R. Feagin, The White Racial Frame Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing