Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War
by Ishmael Reed
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A collection of essays by the prominent author and activist criticizes the perpetuators of what he identifies as America's war on the black population, citing historical and ongoing conflicts, while noting areas of responsibility in governmental, media, and public arenas.Tags
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Reed will make you think, laugh, and scream. In this essay collection, he will introduce you to the concept of the Negro-Saxon (descendents of W.E.B. Dubois' "Talented Tenth" who now front for white conservatism), remind you that Jews, Irish, and Italians were scorned in America until they "turned" white, obsess on the "conspiracy of silence" that keeps growing white-on-white violence, drug use, and out-of-wedlock birth out of the news, and argue that we are in a second Confederacy stage. That list should tell you whether you should pick the book up or not. Me, I loved it, even though Dr. Reed and I "got into it" this summer on-line over THE WIRE. (P. S. Black history nuts might want to know that show more Reed mounts an powerful defense of Booker T. Washington--often demeaned for being "Uncle Tom"-ish--in the best essay here.) show less
Reed will make you think, laugh, and scream. In this essay collection, he will introduce you to the concept of the Negro-Saxon (descendents of W.E.B. Dubois' "Talented Tenth" who now front for white conservatism), remind you that Jews, Irish, and Italians were scorned in America until they "turned" white, obsess on the "conspiracy of silence" that keeps growing white-on-white violence, drug use, and out-of-wedlock birth out of the news, and argue that we are in a second Confederacy stage. That list should tell you whether you should pick the book up or not. Me, I loved it, even though Dr. Reed and I "got into it" this summer on-line over THE WIRE. (P. S. Black history nuts might want to know that show more Reed mounts an powerful defense of Booker T. Washington--often demeaned for being "Uncle Tom"-ish--in the best essay here.) show less
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Poet and novelist Ismael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on February 22, 1938 and grew up in Buffalo, New York. After attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, he moved to New York City, where he became a co-founder of the East Village Other, a journal of experimental writing. From New York, he moved to Berkeley, California, show more and started the Yardbird Publishing Company. Reed's fiction draws upon myth, magic, and ritual to produce a literature that attempts to be larger than life. He has been called an ironist, whose explorations of United States history in general and African American history in particular reveal deep scars in the culture that no amount of technology can heal. Reed tries to incorporate multimedia and nonlinear techniques into his writing style. He has defended his eclectic techniques with spirit, however: "Many people call my fiction muddled, crazy, incoherent because I've attempted in fiction the techniques and forms painters, dancers, film makers, musicians in the West have taken for granted for at least 50 years, and the artists of many other cultures, for thousands of years." His other published books include: six collections of poetry, including: New and Collected Poems, 1964-2007; eight collections of essays, most recently Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers (2010); Gethsemane Park; The Reed Reader (2000); Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (2003); and six plays, collected by Dalkey Archive Press as Ishmael Reed, The Plays (2009). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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- 305.800973 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups standard subdivisions / Ethnic and national groups with ethnic origins from more than one continent, of European descent standard subdivisions Biography And History North America United States
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- E184 .A1 .R426 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
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