Collective Amnesia American Apartheid

Author : Eugene DeFriest Bétit
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796011053
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid written by Eugene DeFriest Bétit and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid is a comprehensive study of the treatment African Americans have encountered since their arrival in Virginia in 1619, a saga of racism and white supremacy. It is actual history, not the popular mythology about the Civil War and its aftermath taught in our schools. Numerous tables, photographs, maps, and charts make the study easy to read. The topic is extremely pertinent due to the four hundredth anniversary of African Americans’ presence in North America in 2019 and encouragement of racism from the White House. Chapters cover white supremacy and racism, slavery, the service of US Colored Troops in the Civil War, devastation of the South, evolution of emancipation, and Reconstruction and the Freedman’s Bureau. Other chapters address “redemption” and the “lost cause,” Jim Crow, blacks’ significant military contributions in the two world wars, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, and the backlash that continues today. The book also addresses contemporary issues, including white supremacy, Confederate statuary, and evaluates the status of blacks compared to other groups in society. Note is taken of Professor James Whitman’s observation that Hitler admired Jim Crow and antimiscegenation laws, as well as Richard Rothstein’s study of federal and local housing law, documenting whites’ responsibility for creating inner-city ghettos.

Author : Eugene Defriest Betit
Publisher : Xlibris Us
ISBN 13 : 9781796011074
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Amnesia written by Eugene Defriest Betit and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid is a comprehensive study of the treatment African Americans have encountered since their arrival in Virginia in 1619, a saga of racism and white supremacy. It is actual history, not the popular mythology about the Civil War and its aftermath taught in our schools. Numerous tables, photographs, maps, and charts make the study easy to read. The topic is extremely pertinent due to the four hundredth anniversary of African Americans' presence in North America in 2019 and encouragement of racism from the White House. Chapters cover white supremacy and racism, slavery, the service of US Colored Troops in the Civil War, devastation of the South, evolution of emancipation, and Reconstruction and the Freedman's Bureau. Other chapters address "redemption" and the "lost cause," Jim Crow, blacks' significant military contributions in the two world wars, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, and the backlash that continues today. The book also addresses contemporary issues, including white supremacy, Confederate statuary, and evaluates the status of blacks compared to other groups in society. Note is taken of Professor James Whitman's observation that Hitler admired Jim Crow and antimiscegenation laws, as well as Richard Rothstein's study of federal and local housing law, documenting whites' responsibility for creating inner-city ghettos.

Author : Robyn Autry
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542518
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desegregating the Past written by Robyn Autry and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other reminders of apartheid-era atrocities. In the United States, museum exhibitions about racial violence and segregation are mostly confined to black history museums, with national history museums sidelining such difficult material. Even the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is dedicated not to violent histories of racial domination but to a more generalized narrative about black identity and culture. The scale at which violent racial pasts have been incorporated into South African national historical narratives is lacking in the U.S. Desegregating the Past considers why this is the case, tracking the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race. Robyn Autry consults museum archives, conducts interviews with staff, and recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the selective reconstruction of the past. Museums have played a major role in shaping public memory, at times recognizing and at other times blurring the ongoing influence of historical crimes. The narratives museums produce to engage with difficult, violent histories expose present anxieties concerning identity, (mis)recognition, and ongoing conflict.

Author : Douglas S.; Denton Massey (Nancy A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AMERICAN APARTHEID: SEGREGATION AND THE MAKING OF THE UNDERCLASS. written by Douglas S.; Denton Massey (Nancy A.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas S. Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book American Apartheid written by Douglas S. Massey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James S. Wright
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481951074
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book American Apartheid written by James S. Wright and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my opinion, aside from the treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, the most tragic case of man's inhumanity to man is the treatement of the Native American people in the United States. The Native Americans were also the first American victims of apartheid. Third on my list would be the enslavement of my ancestors, the African Americans, by white Americans ... The enslavement of Africans in America was not the white man's first attempt at slavery. Long before the black man was brought to America, the white man made an attempt to make the red man his slave; however, the free spirit of the Native Americans would never allow them to be slaves. When the white man attempted to put the Native Americans in bondage, they simply died. Without their freedom, the Native Americans lost the will to live. This will give you some idea of why they fought so hard to keep their land and their freedom in this country ...

Author : Eugene DeFriest Bétit
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811772357
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsung Patriots written by Eugene DeFriest Bétit and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s one of the last overlooked parts of American military history: the significant role African Americans played in the wars of America. Their story is more than just the 54th Massachusetts in the Civil War, more than just a tank battalion in World War II: African Americans contributed to every war in American history. Gene Bétit tells this important story with verve and gusto, as well as respect. By their brave deeds, African Americans have secured a place in American military history, and Bétit makes sure they receive their due. In the colonial wars, the Revolution, and the War of 1812, African Americans served as seamen, gunners, and marine sharpshooters in the Navy and served as 15 percent of the Continental Army. During the Civil War, blacks constituted nearly 200,000 soldiers of the Union Army and served in some of the war’s most celebrated regiments and toughest battles, and their service inspired the farthest-reaching of the Union’s emancipation policies. In the decades after the Civil War, Black soldiers formed an important part of the U.S. Army, fighting as Buffalo Soldiers in the Indian Wars of the 1870s, up through the Spanish-American War. In World War I, the segregated 92nd and 93rd Divisions fought hard and received the Croix de Guerre from France. In World War II, more than one million Blacks served the United States—and more than a hundred thousand were assigned to combat duty, not only in the Black Panther tank battalion and the Tuskegee Airmen, but in other combat units and units that kept the American war effort supplied. In the years since World War II, Truman integrated the military during the Korean War, but the African-American soldiers remain a class apart—during Korea, during Vietnam, and beyond. This is a story with importance not only for military history, but for all of American history. And Gene Bétit does it careful, exciting justice.

Author : Paul Vanouse
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031470737
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Difference, Sameness and DNA written by Paul Vanouse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noe Montez
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336294
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina written by Noe Montez and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work examining Argentine theatre over the past four decades and drawing on contemporary research, Noe Montez considers how theatre can serve as activism and alter public reception to a government addressing human rights violations by its predecessor.

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807018104
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Prophetic Fire written by Cornel West and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. West, in these illuminating conversations with the German scholar and thinker Christa Buschendorf, describes Douglass as a complex man who is both “the towering Black freedom fighter of the nineteenth century” and a product of his time who lost sight of the fight for civil rights after the emancipation. He calls Du Bois “undeniably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century” and explores the more radical aspects of his thinking in order to understand his uncompromising critique of the United States, which has been omitted from the American collective memory. West argues that our selective memory has sanitized and even “Santaclausified” Martin Luther King Jr., rendering him less radical, and has marginalized Ella Baker, who embodies the grassroots organizing of the civil rights movement. The controversial Malcolm X, who is often seen as a proponent of reverse racism, hatred, and violence, has been demonized in a false opposition with King, while the appeal of his rhetoric and sincerity to students has been sidelined. Ida B. Wells, West argues, shares Malcolm X’s radical spirit and fearless speech, but has “often become the victim of public amnesia.” By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, in the engrossing dialogue with Buschendorf, and in his insightful introduction and powerful closing essay, Cornel West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire.