"Tactics Used to Secure Material Advantages in Social Contexts Perceived as Zero-Sum"

"Engagement with Du Boisian ideas might have made 'A Dreadful Deceit' more convincing (and its practical implications less ambiguous). Still, if contemporary discussions of race could be focused on the interconnections between racial ideologies, political power and economic vulnerability, as Jones would like, that would be a dramatic improvement over the 'postracial' narratives that currently reign."


Tommie Shelby in The New York Times reviews Jacqueline Jones's A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America.