David Roediger’s “How Race Survived US History”
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The main idea that Roediger builds in his book is that race survived in the history of USA because leaders supported it. In the history of USA, leaders have never acted appropriately on race. Clinton, for example, waited until 1995 to give a speech on affirmative action against racism. Nixon is a leader who used racism, through coded language, to appeal the white electorate. Using racism as a political weapon of winning votes is, therefore, a factor that inhabited racism in the country. Ronald Reagan too used words that portrayed racial divides to win over the Democrats. Such words included “welfare moms”, “state’s rights”, “the quotas”, etc.
The judicial system of USA also supported racism in a very ironical manner. The courts required the non-white complainants to stand aside in their own groups. This was a racist way of conducting court sessions because it led to racial profiling. The leaders of the nation also used race in their anticrime campaigns, depicting non-whites as the criminals. They used race to criminalize certain groups of the society. As the leaders used race criminalize the Black Americans, their prison population increased. For example, in 1975, the incarceration rate was one out of a thousand people. As the leaders politicized the matter of race and crime, the incarceration rates increased to seven out of a thousand people in 2005. The period between 1975 and 2004 was when the leaders politicized the issue of race. During this time, the population of the blacks in prisons rose by six fold. Even today, African Americans and the Hispanic populations have higher likelihoods (7 and 3 respectively) of incarceration than the whites.
In summary, politics is the main reason race survived in the US. In the past political campaigns, US leaders used race as a strategy of winning the support of the majority (whites). The public campaigns against crime and drugs perpetrated the belief that the non white populations, especially the blacks, were responsible for high crime rates in the country.
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