A Reading List for the Right to Match the Times

"In short, the black studies question, like the black revolt as a whole, has raised all the fundamental problems of class power in American life, and the solutions will have to run deep into the structures of the institutions themselves.” 

 That’s a fair statement of the “systemic racism” argument that left the corridors of academia a few years back and has landed on the lips of CEOs, star athletes, and Joe Biden. It’s a variant on “structural racism” and “institutional racism,” more names for the standardized but subtle modes of bias that operate through rules and procedures, the racism they carry “written into” impersonal codes and criteria of large bodies. The recognition of them, we are told, is a landmark insight into the workings of injustice. 

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-Rurik