Ebook: A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America
Author: Jones Jacqueline
- Tags: Race awareness -- United States -- History., Race -- Philosophy., African Americans -- Race identity -- History., African Americans -- Biography., United States -- Race relations -- History., SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations., SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies., African Americans., African Americans -- Race identity., Race awareness., Race relations., United States.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: United States, United States
- Language: English
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"In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin andRead more...
Abstract:
From a preeminent social historian, the stories of six African-Americans whose struggles reveal the strange evolution of the concept of race in America from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. Read more...
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