The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life

The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life
ISBN-10
0465043941
ISBN-13
9780465043941
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2003-11-13
Publisher
Civitas Books
Author
Manning Marable

Description

In his boldest and most accessible book to date, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. Exploding traditional lines of left and right, Marable stakes out such controversial and seemingly incompatible positions as the re-enfranchisement of felons, state support for faith-based institutions, reparations for slavery that systematically inject capital into the black community, and a reconfiguration of racial identities that accounts for the increasingly multi-racial nature of our society. He exhorts us to construct a new political language and practical public policies to bridge the racial divide--so that we do no less than reinvent the democratic project called America.

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