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$20 and Change: Harriet Tubman, George Floyd, and the Struggle for Radical Democracy - Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson, and the Future of American Democracy (Paperback)
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$20 and Change: Harriet Tubman, George Floyd, and the Struggle for Radical Democracy - Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson, and the Future of American Democracy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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Twenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman's life and legacy
in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing
struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision
prevails. America is in the throes of a historic reckoning with
racism, with the battle for control over official narratives at
ground zero. Across the country, politicians, city councils, and
school boards are engaged in a highly polarized debate about whose
accomplishments should be recognized, and whose point of view
should be included in the telling of America's history. In Twenty
Dollars and Change, political scientist Clarence Lusane, author of
the acclaimed The Black History of the White House, writes from a
basic premise: Racist historical narratives and pervasive social
inequities are inextricably linked-changing one can transform the
other. Taking up the debate over the future of the twenty-dollar
bill, Lusane uses the question of Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson
as a lens through which to view the current state of our nation's
ongoing reckoning with the legacies of slavery and foundational
white supremacy. He places the struggle to confront unjust social
conditions in direct connection with the push to transform our
public symbols, making it plain that any choice of whose life
deserves to be remembered and honored is a direct reflection of
whose basic rights are deemed worthy of protection, and whose are
not. "Engaging and insightful, Twenty Dollars and Change
illuminates the grassroots effort to have our national currency
reflect the diversity of America and all of its citizens-those
ordinary and extraordinary people who have stood up and demanded
freedom, equality and justice. A must read!"-Kate Clifford Larson,
author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of
an American Hero
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