Description
Book SynopsisGerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s.
Trade Review"Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived." * The Triangle Tribune *
"... students said that
Race Becomes Tomorrow significantly advanced their understanding of race in the United States. This is an important achievement. Undergraduates, graduate students, and seasoned scholars will find value in
Race Becomes Tomorrow. Indeed, the book is appropriate for anyone interested in a vivid ethnographic account of what race does in the United States." -- Charles Price * American Anthropologist *
"While [Sider] claims that his book is for a new generation of activists, as someone who has done research for years on race formation in the United States I would add that it is a book for scholars as well." -- Yolanda T. Moses * American Ethnologist *
"Anthropologists who regard their discipline as inseparable from radical politics will welcome this book." -- Jack Glazier * Journal of Anthropological Research *
“
Race Becomes Tomorrow offers us tools for struggle built from the tactics that vulnerable populations have always used in order to make livable worlds for themselves.” -- Michelle Munyikwa * PoLAR *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Introduction. Past History 1
Part I. Stories
1. Did the Conk Rag Lose? 21
2. The Waters of Death and Life 47
3. Cockroach Racing 71
Part II. Culturing Words
4. Naming Troubles 91
5. State Making 117
6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger 137
Part III. Beyond
7. Living in the Beyond 145
8. "Out Here It's Dog Eat Dog and Vice Versa" 153
Part IV. Living Contradictions
9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg 175
10. "We Die in Harness . . . ": The Tomorrows of Vulnerable People 195
Appendix. Demographic Post-Civil Rights History of African American Towns in Robeson County 205
References 215
Index 219
