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Substitution Tethers is a forensic examination of how American institutions erase the lineage-specific claims of Foundational Black Americans (FBA) through administrative flattening, demographic aggregation, and cultural substitution.
Drawing on four centuries of policy history, Dareios Little exposes the “Substitution Effect” — the structural process by which FBA identity is overwritten by broader racial categories. From census forms to DEI programs, from immigration policy to reparations debates, this book traces how lineage has been collapsed into identity, and how that collapse endangers justice.
This is not a critique of individuals. It is a critique of systems.
It is not a rejection of solidarity. It is a demand for precision.
Substitution Tethers offers a framework for restoring clarity, honoring unshared injury, and cutting the administrative chains that tether FBA to outcomes they did not earn — and injuries they did not escape.
Substitution Tethers is a forensic examination of how American institutions erase the lineage-specific claims of Foundational Black Americans (FBA) through administrative flattening, demographic aggregation, and cultural substitution.
Drawing on four centuries of policy history, Dareios Little e...
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