Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism in highly adaptable. The rules and reasons the political systems employs to enforce social relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged. The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society--new rules of the game, so to speak. These new rules have been justified by new rhetoric, new language, and a new social consensus, while producing many of the same results. This dynamic, which legal scholar Reva Siegel has dubbed preservation through transformation, is the process which white privilege is maintained, though the rules and rhetoric change. - Michelle Alexander
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:54:23 +0000
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