Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life is a 2012 anthology book co-authored by sociologist Karen Fields and her sister, historian Barbara J.

[2] The book draws an analogy between race and witchcraft, arguing that both concepts function as mystical, yet seemingly rational explanations for real events.

[10][11] The chapter also criticizes efforts to populate multiracial identity which the book dismisses as "recycled racist fiction" that relies upon false assumptions of a pure racial ancestry.

[14] The book's fourth chapter, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America", originally published in 1990, forms the historical foundation for the critique outlined in Racecraft.

[19] Paralleling the omnipresence of witchcraft, the chapter presents examples of fallacious logic and daily rituals that reproduce race in the United States.

[20] Fields argues that such rationalizations constitute an "invisible ontology", a concept borrowed from the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah,[20] where in the same way a string of bad luck was interpreted as the result of curses, the effects of racism are attributed to race.

[11] Anthony Hutchison, in the Journal of American Studies, praised the concept of racecraft as "undoubtedly indispensable", comparing it to Marx's theory of commodity fetishism.

[25] Cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote that Racecraft, along with Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans were the only two books successful in entirely transforming the way he thought about race.