Source: Boiling Frogs PostAndrew Gavin Marshall
“Black History in the United States: Slavery, Segregation, and Social Control”
In a highly critical black history of the United States, this episode
examines the social construction of race (and racism) starting in the
late 1600s as a means of social control, devised through the colonial
legal system to separate white and black labour, prison labour, black
education system, the developments of ghettos as a means of segregating
the black population, the civil rights organizations in an attempt to
steer the movement away from its natural and potentially revolutionary
course to confront the entire social- economic- political system of
racism, and the “war on drugs” and laws disproportionately targeting the
black community.
Understanding the history of those who have been most oppressed
within it is vital to understanding the true nature of the society we
live in; thus, the black history of the United States is indivisible
from the total history of the United States, and the subject bears
relevance to the future of poverty and class struggle in a world of
enormous inequality.
