Descripción
Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson's search for an answer took him across the country--to the Cherokee Nation, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in Oklahoma--back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured Oakland, California. By not only recounting our shared tragicomedy of race but helping us to own it--even to embrace it--this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it.
Author: Scott L. Malcomson
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 10/17/2001
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.48w x 1.42d
ISBN13: 9780374527945
ISBN10: 0374527946
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Scott Malcomson's previous books are Tuturani: A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands and Borderlands: Nation and Empire. From 1984 to 1996 he worked at The Village Voice in a variety of jobs, including a seven-year stint as senior editor at the VLS.
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