The Janus Face of Race

Rhonda M. Williams on Orthodox Economic Schizophrenia

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ID10429765
AuthorsPatrick L Mason (0000-0003-2223-0715, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume29
Issue4
Pages63-75
Publication date2002-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1007/bf02717296
OpenAlexW2110844816
LanguageEN
References cited20

The American Negro has the great advantage ofhaving never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling.... The ten-dency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. [The problem of the color line is] a fearful and delicate problem, which comprises, when it does not corrupt, all the American efforts to build a better world--here, there, or anywhere. It is for this reason that everything white Americans think they believe in must now be reex-amined.--James Baldwin (The Price of the Ticket, 377-378). Unfortunately, Baldwin is not required reading in graduate conomics. "The Janus Face of Race " is the title of the introductory chapter from Race, Markets, and Social Outcomes (Mason and Will iams 1997). Will-iams selected the title to capture the interpretative schizophrenia of or-thodox economists eeking to rationalize racial inequality as a failure stemming from the behaviors and values of African-American individu

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