Race Becomes Tomorrow

"Anchored in Gerald M. Sider's path-breaking work in North Carolina, Race Becomes Tomorrow is part scholarly and political memoir and part critical meditation on America’s hydra-headed political economy of racism. Vintage Sider!"  - Karen Brodkin, author of Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles

"Through storytelling Gerald M. Sider makes many incisive points about race, culture, power, and class. His stories are more than just stories—they provide entry points into a deeper understanding of how people live race and power. Highly stimulating, and at times humorous and poignant, Race Becomes Tomorrow will make a controversial and important contribution to contemporary debates about race, culture, and inequality."  - Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

"Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived." - The Triangle Tribune

"... students said that Race Becomes Tomorrow significantly advanced their understanding of race in the United States. This is an important achievement. Undergraduates, graduate students, and seasoned scholars will find value in Race Becomes Tomorrow. Indeed, the book is appropriate for anyone interested in a vivid ethnographic account of what race does in the United States." - Charles Price, American Anthropologist

"While [Sider] claims that his book is for a new generation of activists, as someone who has done research for years on race formation in the United States I would add that it is a book for scholars as well." - Yolanda T. Moses, American Ethnologist

"Anthropologists who regard their discipline as inseparable from radical politics will welcome this book." - Jack Glazier, Journal of Anthropological Research

“Race Becomes Tomorrow offers us tools for struggle built from the tactics that vulnerable populations have always used in order to make livable worlds for themselves.” - Michelle Munyikwa, PoLAR