Friday, 30 October 2009

According to A People's History of the United States racism isn't natural but is caused by "certain conditions." What could those conditions be? "if...

In Chapter
2, Zinn discusses a number of conditions that made for racism.  As Zinn is a Marxist thinker,
the most important of these, to him, is the economic needs of the elites of the
society.

Zinn argues that the planters in the Colonial American South needed
slave labor.  To keep slavery...

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