ISBN:
1135336962
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9781135336967
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 335 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lemert, Charles C., 1937- Dark thoughts
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Racism
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Race relations
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Race relations ; Psychological aspects
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Racism
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Social conditions
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Rassismus
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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United States Social conditions 1980-
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United States Race relations
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United States Race relations
;
Psychological aspects
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United States
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USA
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Bad Dreams of Big Business: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Six; All Kinds of People Gettin' On, 1954; The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903; Part III. Between, Before, and Beyond, 1873-2020; Seven; When Good People Do Evil, 1989; The Queer Passing of Analytic Things: Nella Larsen, 1929; Eight; What Would Jesus Have Done? 1965; The Race of Time: Deconstruction, Du Bois, and Reconstruction, 1935-1873; Nine; Dreaming in the Dark, November 26, 1997; Justice in the Colonizer's Nightmare: Muhammad, Malcolm, and Necessary Drag, 1965-2020; Ten; A Call in the Night, February 11, 2000.
Abstract:
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dark Days, September 11, 2001; Part I. The Beginnings of a Millennium, 1990s; One; The Coming of My Last Born, April 8, 1998; The Eclipse of Society, 1901-2001; Two; Blood and Skin, 1999; Whose We? Dark Thoughts of the Universal Self, 1998; Three; A Call in the Morning, 1988; The Rights and Justices of the Multicultural Panic, 1990s; Part II. The Last New Century, 1890s; Four; Calling out Father by Calling up His Mother, 1947; The Colored Woman's Office: Anna Julia Cooper, 1892; Five; Get on Home, 1949.
Abstract:
In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person. Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, Nella Larson, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. In a rare and unflinching look at his own complicated history, Lemert also explores his own racism, his struggle wi
Abstract:
The Gospel According to Matt: Suicide and the Good of Society, 2000Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
