Democracy in Black How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
epub | 588.6 KB | English | Author :Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | B00WCXJIN8 | 2016 | Crown/Archetype

Book Description :

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society

America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency--at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem.

Democracy in Black is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a "value gap"--with white lives valued more than others--that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that reinforce inequality, why black politics based on the...

Category : | African American History, History of LGBT & Gender Studies, 21st Century History of the U.S.