
America At 400: 1619-2019
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30. XII 2019
Out of slavery – and the anti-black racism it required – grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal syste
Superb. Accurate.
May I suggest Professor Slotkin’s “Regeneration Through Violence” — extraordinary and it expands on this subject in great detail.