Racism and Economic Hardship with Keri Leigh Merritt

We The Podcast

Oct 16, 201745:10News & Politics

Keri Leigh Merritt is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Keith and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss the link between economic hardship and the spread of racism throughout American hi...

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