The Debt : What America Owes to Blacks

by Randall Robinson

Hardcover, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

E> Racial Justice

Description

The author states that racial problems in the United States will not be solved "until two things happen: America must accept responsibility for the grievous wrong that has been committed against Africans and African Americans, and take steps to redress that wrong; and black Americans need to arm themselves with a more comprehensive awareness of their ancient history and a fuller recognition of their ongoing contribution to our nation and the world."--

Publication

Dutton Adult (2000), Edition: First, 272 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member sweetdissident

Gripping, eloquent, and reasoned look at American history, American ethnocentrism, slavery, racism, and the way they have shaped African American lives (and African American history).

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LibraryThing member writeonbro

Great discussions of the historical and empirical behind the scene economic issues that are propelling America into a debtor nation.

LibraryThing member keylawk

Randall Robinson fairly describes the legatic shadow of racist defamation: "No nation can enslave a race of people for hundreds of years, set them free bedraggled and penniless, pit them, without assistance in a hostile environment, against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap

between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines, begun parallel and left alone, can never touch." [74]

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