Hm, okay! This is all new information to me, more or less, though I did know about the lynchings/Jim Crow... okay, stuff is making more sense now, although the way you explained the quote (I must clarify -- I do think you did it quite well! I'm interpreting it as another gap of logic in the book) made it sound like it was predominantly a problem of race. I mean, I have no doubt that this would have spilled over into the general political climate, but given that most people who wanted to emulate the flapper/twenties lifestyle at first, and more than likely were the only ones who could afford to do so, were... middle-class white people who already had more than their fair share of political sovereignty (again, disclaimer about general political climate). I mean, isn't political sovereignty related to economic sovereignty really? Especially for black sharecroppers -- if you can't vote, I'm sure the rest of life (inc. the economic bit) is going to be pretty shit for you, so.
Tl; dr -- I don't doubt that for a limited subset of people "embracing economic sovereignty" would be a meaningful/workable alternative to political sovereignty, but holy that is one hell of a generalisation to be putting into one paragraph. So, um, yeah, this was a shallow book?
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Date: Sunday, 23 January 2011 08:17 (UTC)Tl; dr -- I don't doubt that for a limited subset of people "embracing economic sovereignty" would be a meaningful/workable alternative to political sovereignty, but holy that is one hell of a generalisation to be putting into one paragraph. So, um, yeah, this was a shallow book?