American Untouchables: America & The Racial Contract: A Historical Perspective On Race-Based Politics (Critical Perspectives On Social Science)

The American social order is generally defined by three social classes: the poor, the middle, and the wealthy; however, in America there is a fourth, African-American. It is more akin to the Indian caste system, and African-Americans are at the floor of the caste system, the untouchables. The American social order, politics, education, and geography are played out through the lenses of race. The proposed examination holds that America's raced based social order began and is sustained by America's original social response to Africans. America established a slave system akin to the European feudal system in America's South. The system was delineated by land owners at the top, in the middle were poor whites, and at the bottom African-Americans. Like feudalism, the economic system was predicated on agriculture.

• | Author: Andre Smith
• | Publisher: Vernon Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Political science
• | ISBN-10: 1622732995
• | ISBN-13: 9781622732999