Assertion: white people's race | /r/CapableOf | forge new sense of national unity
Facets:
value: for the american people
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Before the Civil War, this distinction often made the difference between whether you were a full citizen or a slave with three-fifths congressional representation; afterward, as Edward J. Blum discussed in Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898, the paradigm of “whiteness” was used to forge a new sense of national unity for the American people as a way of healing sectional, regional, and class strife.