I wanted add a little bit of context to the race discussions that have become so prevalent here. There are a number of great academic scholars in this area, but one that always stuck with me was a 1993 work by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton that argued that racial segregation was the critical factor in the African American (AA) American experience. They also were concerned that scholars were moving toward the view that class, gender and other issues were more important to understand the American experience and AA American experience. They believed that racial segregation was so important to the AA experience that the called their book American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
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