Sublime

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in