Convenience Store Woman is conveniently very short! So even if you decide you don't like it, it's not a big investment.
It seems like more of an intellectual history, focusing on people who contributed in some way (good or bad) to American ideas about racism: Cotton Mather, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, etc. And it also points out that the basic underpinning of racism is not really intellectual at all, but economic gain - the ideas are a superstructure built up to rationalize why the extremely lucrative system of slavery is not merely expedient but morally okay. I thought the book maybe should have leaned on that harder.
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Date: 2020-08-27 01:05 am (UTC)It seems like more of an intellectual history, focusing on people who contributed in some way (good or bad) to American ideas about racism: Cotton Mather, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, etc. And it also points out that the basic underpinning of racism is not really intellectual at all, but economic gain - the ideas are a superstructure built up to rationalize why the extremely lucrative system of slavery is not merely expedient but morally okay. I thought the book maybe should have leaned on that harder.