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Forced to ride Jim Crow is the key. Not identity as sense of self, but identification by others, peremptory and binding, figuring even in well-meant efforts to undo the crimes of racism. The victim’s intangible race, rather than the perpetrator’s tangible racism, becomes the center of attention.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
Of course, the prices that pencil makers use to make production decisions are not just random numbers. They are expressions of a living market society, characterized by decentralized decision-making, involving large numbers of producers and consumers. Markets place pressure on all producers to get prices right. If it proves possible, for example, to make pencils more cheaply without sacrificing quality by using a new technique, the firm that does so will earn a sizable profit. New information about pencil production possibilities will show up in the system as a lower pencil price.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
More inclusive suburbs can ease urban gentrification.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
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