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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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many people have given him a great deal of credit for damaging an institution that was in grave need of being damaged. This did not come about because Stetson Kennedy was courageous or resolute or unflappable, even though he was all of these. It happened because he understood the raw power of information.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
The logic of apartheid is difficult to follow, for it seems from our vantage point a strange kind of illogic. Liberal multiculturalism takes for granted that the route to racial harmony is mutual understanding, and the route to understanding is contact, exposure, conversation. So our modern studies show that those who know actual black people, or g
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
Yet again, an advance in technology resulted in a decay in race relations as these internally displaced people often traded the overt racism of the South for the subtle, yet equally devastating,