Why Are They Angry with Us? Essays on Race

Larry E. Davis

ISBN 10: 1943137129 / ISBN 13: 9781943137121

Published by Lyceum Books, 2015

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Synopsis:

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

Race is what I always have thought most about. In fact, I have been thinking about race as long as I can remember thinking about anything. Race was very much a topic in our home and, most probably because of this, it became my primary tool for analyzing life. Much as the Marxists used economics, I have used race. Virtually all of my thinking on religion, politics, crime, conomics, neighborhoods, and relationships has employed race as a cutting stone to dissect and try to understand them. As a seven year old boy, I remember asking myself, If we (black people) were slaves, why are they (white people)
angry with us? This question stayed with me into my early thirties and into my doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. Some two and one-half decades after I first formed this question, I finally found what, for me, was a satisfactory answer to it.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Now, more than at any time since the 1960s, issues about race have taken center stage in America. From the killing of young black boys, to the travesty of mass incarceration, America is every day presented with evidence that the struggle for equality and justice is far from over. This book responds to many of the timely, sensitive, and often uncomfortable conversations that are taking place on our television screens, the front page of newspapers, on Twitter, and in homes around the country.

Why Are They Angry With Us? attempts to resolve the questions and conflicts about race in America that have plagued our country from the days of Jim Crow, through the battle for civil rights, and remain with us today. The author's personal journey and his professional scholarship have lead him to an understanding of our collective history. This collection of eight essays relates racial incidents and observations to address the deep misunderstandings our country holds about race and attempt to explain the workings of race and racism in America. These essays attack the core of many commonly held attitudes which contribute to racism in America.

About the Author: Larry E. Davis, MA, MSW, PhD, is the dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is the Donald M. Henderson Professor. He is the director and founder of the Center on Race and Social Problems, which conducts applied social science research on
race, ethnicity, and color.

From 1977 until his arrival at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, Davis was a faculty member at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was professor of social work and psychology and the holder of the E. Desmond Lee Chair in Ethnic and Racial Diversity. Davis was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Some of his publications have appeared in the Journal of Adolescent Research, Social Work, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Black Psychology, Journal of Educational
Psychology, and Social Work Research. Davis is also the coeditor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition and founder and chairman of the editorial board of the
journal Race and Social Problems (Springer Publications). In addition, he is the founder and leader of REAP, a consortium of race, ethnicity, and poverty centers from across the United States. He is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, Council on Social Work Education, Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), and the Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development (IUCISD).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Why Are They Angry with Us? Essays on Race
Publisher: Lyceum Books
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good