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Informationen zum Autor Gerald M. Sider is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and the author of Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his youth, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Tacking between past and present, Sider describes how political power, economic control, and racism inject chaos into the lives of ordinary people, especially African Americans, with surprising consequences. In addition to recounting his years working on voter registration in rural North Carolina, Sider makes connections between numerous issues, from sharecropping and deindustrialization to the recessions of the 1970s and 2008, the rise of migrant farm labor, and contemporary living-wage campaigns. Sider's stories-whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions, or the claims and failures of police violence-provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived. They demonstrate that race is produced and exists in unpredictability, and that the transition from yesterday to tomorrow is anything but certain. Zusammenfassung Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism! his childhood! and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Past History 1 Part I. Stories 1. Did the Conk Rag Lose? 21 2. The Waters of Death and Life 47 3. Cockroach Racing 71 Part II. Culturing Words 4. Naming Troubles 91 5. State Making 117 6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger 137 Part III. Beyond 7. Living in the Beyond 145 8. "Out Here It's Dog Eat Dog and Vice Versa" 153 Part IV. Living Contradictions 9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg 175 10. "We Die in Harness . . . ": The Tomorrows of Vulnerable People 195 Appendix. Demographic Post-Civil Rights History of African American Towns in Robeson County 205 References 215 Index 219...
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Gerald M. Sider is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and the author of Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu, also published by Duke University Press.
