Race and class have been inextricable features of American society since the beginning of European settlement. Still our understanding of the ways these social relationships operate and effect each other remains rather hazy. This essay is an attempt to lift some of that haze, especially in regard to the watershed transformation in the patterns of race and class that occurred in the decade of the sixties under the pressures from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
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