The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (Banner Books) - Softcover

Richard Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087805748X ISBN 13: 9780878057481

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1995

Synopsis

This indispensable work urging removal of the color barrier remains one of the key commentaries on the question of race in the modern era. First published in 1956, it arose from Richard Wright's participation in a global conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955. With this report of what occurred at Bandung Wright takes a central spot on the international stage and serves as a harbinger of worldwide social and political change. He exhorts Western nations, largely responsible for the poverty and ignorance in their former colonies, to destroy racial impediments and to work with the leadership of the new nations in moving toward modernization and industrialization under a free democratic system rather than under Communist totalitarianism. With this book, Wright became a precursor to the era of multiculturalism and an advocate for global transformation.

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From Library Journal

"It seems probable that no white Westerner, no African or Asian could have summoned up sufficient objectivity to write it," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 1/15/56). Here, Wright (whose novel, Savage Holiday, is listed above) describes what transpired at the Asian African Bandung Conference of 1955, deducing that religion and race are what truly separates nations.
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Review

Long unavailable until this reprint is a 1956 classic which arose from author Wright's participation in an Indonesian conference. Here Wright exhorts Western nations to destroy racial barriers and to work on an international level to create free democracies around the world, effectively eliminating the barrier posed by race. -- Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 087805748X
• ISBN 13: 9780878057481
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 245