Quote of the Day from the Book of the Day @bigmamadel Racism hinders the formation of political alliances between poor and working- class whites on one hand, and poor and working-class minorities on the other. This, according to Chua, serves to explain the absence of a powerful working class political party in the United States. In this regard, race was a major facilitator in the acculturation and assimilation of European immigrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Horribly exploited by the mine and factory owners for whom they toiled long hours under brutal conditions for subsistence wages, the shared feeling of superiority to blacks was one of the few things that united them. The blackface and racially derogatory minstrel shows of that period helped immigrants acculturate and assimilate by inculcating a nationalism whose common theme was the disparagement and disadvantaging of blacks, rather than uniting across racial lines to resist the exploitation and deprivation that, then and now, does not respect any color line. ~Derrick Bell in Silent Covenants: Brown v Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform #AllDeliberateSpeed #BlackHistotyMonth2014
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:11:56 +0000
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