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Black and white : land, labor, and politics in the south / T. Thomas Fortune ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; introduction by Seth Moglen.

Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928 (author.).

Summary:

"Originally published in 1884, T. Thomas Fortune's Black and White is an insightful and clear-eyed exploration of a post-Reconstruction America--one with issues that are still plaguing the United States to this day. As "the preeminent Black journalist of his age" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of The Black Church), and an early agitator for Civil Rights, Fortune astutely and compellingly analyses the relationship between capitalism and racism in the United States, revealing how the country's racial hierarchy was and still is rooted in a much larger system of economic exploitation. He argues that in order for The United States to progress and fully embrace its ideals and to truly end racial discrimination, this system must be dismantled, reparations made, and labor fairly reimbursed"--Amazon.

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Record details

ISBN: 9781982187255
ISBN: 1982187255
Physical Description: xl, 229 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Paperback edition, updated edition.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2022.

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Foreword / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Introduction / Seth Moglen -- Black -- White -- The Negro and the nation -- The triumph of the vanquished -- Illiteracy: it's causes -- Education: professional or industrial -- How not to do it -- The nation surrenders -- Political independence of the Negro -- Solution of the political problem -- Land and labor -- Civilization degrades the masses -- Conditions of labor in the south -- Classes in the south -- The land problem -- Conclusion.