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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This slim history/commentary covers a lot of ground. Read my full review here. ( ) Race and Reckoning by Ellis Cose is a history of the United States using key moments when we could have chosen to try to live up to our founding principles (on paper anyway) but instead chose to maintain a white supremacist society. These historical moments are explained in clear, very well-researched prose. What comes through is that none of these were simply "the way things were." There were people at every juncture who tried to steer us toward a better and more inclusive society, who argued for doing the right thing. Yet the powers that be did some amazing mental gymnastics, throwing out any sense of ethics or morality, in order to rationalize their racism. On the topic of inclusivity, Cose includes the ways every group other than those considered at the time to be white were targeted. Black, indigenous, Asian, Muslim have all been, and remain, the targets of those who believe the lie of white supremacy. I would recommend this for readers who both want to better understand these moments in history and want the details in order to refute those claiming some kind of "just the way it was" justification, especially since these acts have continued into the present. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have proliferated over time as America became a superpower post World Wars while still discriminating against people of color who served overseas and at home through internment camps and the inability to vote. Presidents and state politicians have enacted and enforced legislation with the aims of bettering a nation, but bettering it for whom? From Reconstruction to the New Deal to the unceasing fight for the Civil Rights Bill and Voting Rights Act to the nation's unyielding sense of patriotism and belief in "the American Dream," each decision solidified the full rights of white people time and time again. In Race and Reckoning, journalist Ellis Cose dissects chapter-by-chapter how America's overall narrative breeds racial resentment rooted in conjecture over fact. Through rigorous research and astute details, Cose uncovers how countless points in history upheld a narrative of "what makes America great" thereby allowing one of the most disastrous presidencies in history to occur at a time when the world was at its most vulnerable"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)305.800973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America United StatesClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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