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The racial divide. Past/present/future ; For better/for worse ; Prejudice is ... ; Racism is ... ; Prejudice + power ; Prejudice + money ; Voices from 'Race : how Blacks and Whites think and feel about the American obsession' (Terkel, 1992) ; Invisible racism -- The past. Past history. Disinterring the past ; Slavery ; Through the looking glass darkly : selections from 'The ideology of slavery' (Faust, ed.) ; The "science" of slavery ; The aftermath of slavery ; The permanent scar ; The enduring legacy ; Recent history. The Southern way ; From 'Killers of the dream' (Lillian Smith, 1949) ; Little Rock ; The civil rights movement ; Martin Luther King, Jr. : the peaceful warrior (1929-1968) ; Martin Luther King, Jr. : from his three classics -- The present. Being Black : racism and the individual. The constant burden ; Psychological murder ; Racial identity ; Living in two worlds ; Fear and rage ; Malcolm X : the embodiment of Black rage ; Malcolm X : controversial rebel (1925-1965) ; Beyond rage and hate ; Overcoming ; Being American ; The paradox of success ; Being a role model ; Paul Robeson : speaking out ahead of his time ; Paul Robeson : role model for all humanity (1898-1976) ; Whose problem? Racism and society. White privilege ; A shared destiny ; Or a divided one ; Integration ; Or resegregation ; The limits of law ; The economic gap ; Equal opportunity ; Affirmative action ; Color blindness ; And our children -- The future. "One America" : the President's initiative on race ; Talking and listening ; Person to person ; Working for change ; Keeping the dream alive. "This book represents a desire to make a significant contribution toward understanding and resolving the "problems" of prejudice and racism ... In this treasury of over 1,000 quotes, you will find -- in the voices of Langston Hughes and the Delany sisters, for example -- some of the bitter-sweet humor that has helped sustain blacks in this country through their long, oppressive history. But, in the words of both blacks and whites, you will also find the stark contrast between the "incalculable" advantages of being born white and the "all-consuming" burden of being born black. In these pages, apologists for slavery extol the social and economic "harmony and good will" that they claim the system made possible -- and Frederick Douglass cries out about its "crimes against God and man"; Lillian Smith describes how, growing up white in the South, she learned "the twisting turning dance of segregation" -- and Arthur Ashe explains why for him race was "a more onerous burden than AIDS"; James Baldwin and others convey in brilliant prose the pain and despair of being black in white America -- and "ordinary" people discuss with Studs Terkel their feelings about race in more simple, but nonetheless eloquent, language; Martin Luther King, Jr., lays the moral foundation for the Civil Rights Movement -- and Cornel West articulates the "passionate pessimism regarding America's will to justice" that exists among many blacks today; Melba Patillo Beals -- almost forty years after she risked death as a teenager to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 -- writes in her heart-wrenching memoir of that experience: "The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence -- to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences"--From Ella Mazel's website, viewed August 28, 2023. |
