The White Working Class and the Politics of Race in the United States

The Declaration of Independence asserts that “All men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Nevertheless, the United States, at its foundation has been faced with the contradict...

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Autor principal:	Palley Howard A.
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	race politics caste Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:31cd7d1510974485b1e642298c024ca52021-12-05T14:11:00ZThe White Working Class and the Politics of Race in the United States2543-804210.1515/openps-2021-0016https://doaj.org/article/31cd7d1510974485b1e642298c024ca52021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2021-0016https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8042The Declaration of Independence asserts that “All men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Nevertheless, the United States, at its foundation has been faced with the contradiction of initially supporting chattel slavery --- a form of slavery that treated black slaves from Africa purely as a commercial commodity. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom had some discomfort with slavery, were slaveholders who both utilized slaves as a commodity. Article 1 of our Constitution initially treated black slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of apportioning representation in order to increase Southern representation in Congress. So initially the Constitution’s commitment to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” did not include the enslaved black population. This essay contends that the residue of this initial dilemma still affects our politics --- in a significant manner.Palley Howard A.De GruyterarticleracepoliticscastePolitical scienceJENOpen Political Science, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 174-179 (2021)
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description	The Declaration of Independence asserts that “All men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Nevertheless, the United States, at its foundation has been faced with the contradiction of initially supporting chattel slavery --- a form of slavery that treated black slaves from Africa purely as a commercial commodity. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom had some discomfort with slavery, were slaveholders who both utilized slaves as a commodity. Article 1 of our Constitution initially treated black slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of apportioning representation in order to increase Southern representation in Congress. So initially the Constitution’s commitment to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” did not include the enslaved black population. This essay contends that the residue of this initial dilemma still affects our politics --- in a significant manner.
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The White Working Class and the Politics of Race in the United States

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