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America Behind the Color Line by
Henry Louis Gates (Author) Renowned
scholar and New York Times bestselling author
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delivers a
stirring and authoritative companion to the major new PBS documentary America
Behind the Color Line. The evolution of African American society has split into
two very distinct and striking communities, according to
Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.--the privileged and the disenfranchised. Viewed through the lens of four
intrinsic elements of the African American experience--Black Hollywood, The
Black Elite, The Ghetto, and The New South--Gates examines the legacy of the
Civil Rights movement, tracing the fascinating journey of black people since the
assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 Liberal Racism by
Jim Sleeper
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A kind of sequel to
Jim Sleeper's earlier
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York,
this is a tough-minded, provocative indictment of the failure of liberalism in
the post-Civil Rights era. As Sleeper sees it, liberals once held the moral high
ground because they "fought nobly to help this country rise above color." Now,
however, liberals have become blinded by race and have abandoned the fight to
create what Sleeper calls the "transracial belonging and civic faith for which
Americans of all colors so obviously yearn." Much of what Sleeper has to say
here flies in the face of politically correct received wisdom about race, but as
an effort to remind Americans that all of us are fundamentally responsible for
our fates, this is a much-needed corrective to race-based thinking that has
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Right by
Al Franken |
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