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> "[white] identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing.." Social cohesion largely as a means of sharpening a
by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> "[white] identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing.."
Social cohesion largely as a means of sharpening anti-Blackness and of labor control, particularly during and after the defeat of Reconstruction and due to growing relevance of the industrial organized labor movement. Du Bois did an immense amount of work critiquing pretty much exactly this.
- disneygibson 5y agoThe entire history of cultures becoming Americanized was not purely an anti-black project. The history of Jews in America is a good example and they were subject to Ivy League quotas well after WW2.