Ishmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected
cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how
ugly it might be. He uses a full-court press: fiction, poetry,
plays, songs, films, interviews, essays, and more. With Why No
Confederate Statues in Mexico, Reed is at his best: insightful,
hard-hitting, eclectic, refreshing, caustic, entertaining,
informative, and, yes, funny. The War of Rebellion still divides
the United States. President Trump, and millions of southerners
wish to maintain monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee. Yet
those who actually fought under them ran away by the thousands.
Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confederate propaganda
film "Gone With The Wind" referred to as "Knights," earned their
massacre bona fides by murdering thousands of blacks, Mexicans, and
Native Americans, who were often unarmed. The "Knight" Robert E.
Lee fought children during the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. The
children, Los ninos heroes (pictured on the cover), refused to
surrender and were slaughtered. The subjects addressed in this book
of essays are vast. They include white nationalism, Donald Trump,
Quentin Tarantino and Django, the musical Hamilton, Ferguson,
Missouri, Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, a different take on #metoo, the
one-at-a-time tokenism of an elite, who chooses winners and losers
among minority artists, the Alt-Right, the use of immigrants to
shame black America, and much more. After The Complete Muhammad
Ali, recognized by many as the "truly definitive book" on the
champion, Ishmael Reed is back with another exciting book of essays
that will stir up debate in the United States and abroad.
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