where private ownership consists principally of the rights to happiness, exclusion and disposition. As Barbara Field explains in her essay, Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States, “those holding liberty to be inalienable and holding Afro-Americans as slaves were bound to end by holding race to be a self-evident truth” (Fields, 101). In a short, both statements examine how the development of whiteness become the explanation for the domination of other groups and the continued avarice of trying…
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