![]() ![]() Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a “value gap”-with white lives valued more than others-that still distorts our politics today. ![]() From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency-at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we’ve solved America’s race problem.ĭemocracy in Black is Eddie S. But today the situation has grown even more dire. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.Īmerica’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. ![]()
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