1 Caste, Class, and Race proposes an alternative explanation. Published in 1948, the volume was written amid World War II–era global hostilities and anti-colonial struggles.Ĭox took aim at a set of prevailing assumptions that were, he wrote, “among the most persistent social illusions of modern times”-that racial prejudice was an instinctive response to physical difference, and that individual, isolated bigots were responsible for racial injustice. As we pass the 70th anniversary of Trinidadian American sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics, his message-that racial injustice is inescapably global, power-laden, and rooted in social, political, and economic systems-could not be more relevant.
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