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Barack
Obama:
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
(Crown 2007)
Barack
Obama:
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the
American Dream.
Random House/ Hardcover, 608 pages
$27.95
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Barack Obama Is African-American
Enough for Me if—
By Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, Author of Loving Black Women
States his
position on African-American Reparations
Some
African-Americans feel we should be compensated for
slavery through scholarships and some think we should
and many feel there should be monetary reparations. Some
African-Americans feel the sum should be $500,000.00 for
each African-American Man and woman and some feel it
should be $100,000.00 per every African-American Man
Woman and child.
I feel that Every
African-American Man, Woman and child should immediately
be compensated and receive a cash payment of $100,000.00
for slavery as well as a letter of apology signed by the
USA president, legislature and judiciary.
If Barack Obama can
announce a progressive position and support for this
type of proposal then Barack Obama is African American
enough for me. Barack Obama, my brother, what is your
position on African-American Reparations?
I know I am asking
a question that Obama may find difficult to answer
however since Obama has experience as a civil rights
lawyer and grew up as an African-American man in America
while also traveling around Chicago, the USA and the
African country of Kenya seeing much of the
international and domestic condition of
African Americans and Africans. I know that Obama has to
appeal to all potential constituents including
African Americans. However Clinton and the Church of
England's apology for slavery is not enough until made
whole with reparations.
Barack must know
how important it is to uplift the conditions and status
of African Americans and Africans in the other parts of
the world as well as be a potentially great USA
President. We also note we African Americans and
Africans must uplift our state of mind embracing a
greater love of ourselves and our people to justify in
our minds to prepare ourselves to make the most of our
potential and reparations owed to us on behalf of our
ancestors who suffered horrors to our people of today
continuing to face racism and discrimination.
If Obama can have a
pro reparations view point and actions, uplifting the
condition and status of African Americans all over the
world by also addressing police excessive force issues
including the murder of Sean Bell, more jobs and job
training for our youth and young people, the bogus
prosecution of political prisoners Mumia Abdul Jamaal
and the San Francisco 8, ending the war of aggression
against Iraq quickly, bringing the US soldiers back to
the USA.
If Barack can address these life-or-death
issues of African Americans all over the USA and still
be a great USA President then Barack Obama is
African-American enough for me.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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