Tocqueville treated race as an afterthought to American democracy

Evidence

Tocqueville helps me lay out the stakes. At the beginning of chapter 10 on the three races, he writes: “I have now finished the main task that I set myself and have, to the best of my ability, described the laws and mores of American democracy.” His writing about race comes as an afterthought, as something wholly apart from the issue of American democracy. Tocqueville makes a mistake. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 92

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tocqueville’s ‘habits of the heart’ wrongly excluded racial views from democracy. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 93
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tocqueville’s ‘habits of the heart’ wrongly excluded racial views from democracy. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 93