Weekends: The Class Path to Racial Liberation w/ Adaner Usmani
Jacobin Radio
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The United States Industrialized After Slavery
In the early twentieth century, about as many working aged black men and white men were employed in the early 20th century. After that there was a complete collapse of agriculture, and the american economy basically never replaced those jobs for african Americans. And that, i think, is the underlying cause of the social problems and the racial divisions in morkin class that you see throughout 20 sentury.
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