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Here's a new one: "The primary factor of social cohesion in Tocqueville’s America was nothing other than white supremacy." The early American republic is bookended by two civil wars. It's an anomaly in the history of... https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society/ via @nplusonemag
...demography for having both increasing wealth and rising mortality rates. It's a society dependent on massive dispossession and colonization and yet still unable to contain consistent political violence and two (the Hartford Convention in 1814-15...
and the nullification crisis of 1832-33) secession crises. It's one of the most disruptive, creative and violent periods of sectarianism in the history of Christianity. It's very strange to characterize it as a period of "social cohesion" and attributing that...
..to "white supremacy" is an example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call "racecraft," or attributing transhistorical force to race or here "white supremacy", in this case to explain something that did not exist.
