Barbara J. Fields is professor of history at Columbia University, author of Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century, and coauthor of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.
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Tackling the myth of a post-racial society Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: t... SEE MORE