Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism - Softcover

Bell, Derrick

 
9780465068142: Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465068146 ISBN 13: 9780465068142
Verlag: Basic Books, 1993

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The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice

In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail so long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo. Bell calls on African Americans to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon a misplaced faith in inevitable progress. Only then will blacks, and those whites who join with them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burdens of racism. "Freed of the stifling rigidity of relying unthinkingly on the slogan 'we shall overcome,'" he writes, "we are impelled both to live each day more fully and to examine critically the actual effectiveness of traditional civil rights remedies."

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Derrick Bell (1930-2011) was a civil rights attorney, pioneering legal scholar, professor, and political activist. A full-time visiting professor at New York University Law School for over two decades, he was previously the first tenured African American professor on the faculty of Harvard Law School and the first African American dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. He is also the author of And We Are Not Saved and several other books.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465068146
ISBN 13 
9780465068142
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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