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Class is often backdoor racism too. Structural racism is a huge driver of class division in the US.
by lstyls 9y ago
Class is often backdoor racism too. Structural racism is a huge driver of class division in the US.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoIs there a good place to read more about that? I haven't seen a good study on teasing apart cultural, class, and racial discrimination in terms of contribution to outcomes.
- lstyls 9y agoTa-Nehisi Coates covered it in both depth and breadth in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas.... Class divisions due to race were cemented by slavery, jim crow, redlining, and the criminal justice system. Nimbyism parallels redlining in certain ways now that I think about it.