Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1990
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 25 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendRacecraftVerso, 2014Fields and her sister Karen reprint the essay in this book, which is the easiest place to find it outside New Left Review.
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An essay first published in New Left Review in 1990. Fields argues that race is not a biological fact or an unchanging attitude but an ideology, a way of explaining social relations that arose in North America to justify the enslavement of Africans in a society proclaiming liberty and equality. Slavery produced race, not race slavery, and the ideology has been continually re-created since. She warns historians against treating race as a cause rather than something itself to be explained.
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