The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners - Softcover

DICKERSON, Debra J.

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9780965911122: The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners

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ISBN 10: 0965911128 ISBN 13: 9780965911122

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2004

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Publication Date: December 10, 2008 Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts, is to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Get angry, Dickerson says, but use that anger to fuel excellence and civic participation rather than crime or drug addiction. Drawing richly on black history and thought, as well as her own hard-won wisdom, she urges blacks to let go of the past and claim their full freedom. It's only by shaping their own future, she argues, that blacks will finally abolish the myth of white superiority.

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