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The 172nd Cutter Lecture in Preventive Medicine – To Race with the World: John Henryism and the Health of Black Americans


Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Abstract:
The daunting racial inequities in education, income, housing, and health care borne by Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century led W.E.B. DuBois to assert in his 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folks: “A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems…” But race they did, out of necessity and a determination to exercise agency despite the constraints of a racial caste system now codified in both law and social customs. Few expressions of late 19th century Black folk culture better captured what this “race with the world” would entail than the legend of John Henry – the steel driving man. Challenged to race against a machine in an epic steel-driving contest, the legendary steel-driver – most likely a convict laborer – beat the machine but then dropped dead from exhaustion. Thus, ....

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