The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have instead increased them. The Content of Our Character is neither "liberal" nor "conservative," but an honest, courageous look at America's most enduring and wrenching social dilemma.

ISBN: 006097415X

Author: Shelby Steele

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Rating: 3.86

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Aftermath: The Remnants of War

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Aftermath: The Remnants of War

In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards; in a sixty-square-mile area outside Stalingrad that was a cauldron of destruction in 1941 and is today an endless field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950's, the results of which are only now becoming apparent; in Vietnam, where a nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created psychological and genetic devastation; in Kuwait, where terrifyingly sophisticated warfare was followed by the Sisyphean task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining life.

Aftermath excavates our century's darkest history, revealing that the destruction of the past remains deeply, inextricably embedded in the present.

ISBN: 067975153X

Author: Donovan Webster

Publisher: Vintage

Rating: 4.23

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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

ISBN: 0821760157

Author: Debbie Cavanaugh

Publisher: Zebra

Rating: 3.00

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The Living Labyrinth

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The Living Labyrinth

Looking at myths and folktales from around the world, Jeremy Taylor reveals parallels between these ancient sacred stories and the dreams of contemporary people, showing how the universal archetypal symbols continue to shape our lives.

ISBN: 0809137666

Author: Jeremy Taylor

Publisher: Paulist Press

Rating: 4.43

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