Derrick Bell

Faces at the Bottom of the Well

The Permanence of Racism

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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 strategi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5416-1772-8
EAN: 9781541617728
Produktnummer: 29125450
Verlag: Basic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 993 KB

Über den Autor

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.