The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself by David Mura

Author:David Mura [Mura, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC031000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, LCO010000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2023-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

The racial animus that informed the pursuit of runaway slaves similarly informed the arrests and imprisonment of supposedly freed African Americans in the South. The result was a new form of white terrorism, this time enacted by law enforcement and the legal system, a repression that was not needed in the same way during slavery.

The post–Civil War era illustrates a guiding principle of American racism: once legal measures have been enacted to supposedly outlaw certain racist practices, any backlash attempt to thwart or retract those measures toward racial equality cannot use the same prior terms or vocabulary. Apprenticeship, debtor or indentured-servant status, vagrancy laws, prison labor—these were the terms through which many aspects of slavery were reinstituted in the South. The goal was to reinstitute slavery, but the goal could not be named as such.

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