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The Burden - African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery (Paperback)
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The Burden - African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery (Paperback)
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Loot Price R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
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The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is
a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like
for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose
unpaid labour built this land, but have had to spend the last
century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial
injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful
bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past. The
Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist
Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a
chorus of evidence that the burden is real. As Nikole Hannah-Jones
states in the book's foreword, "despite the fact that black
Americans remain at the bottom of every indicator of well-being in
this country-from wealth, to poverty, to health, to infant
mortality, to graduation rates, to incarceration-we want to pretend
that this current reality has nothing to do with the racial caste
system that was legally enforced for most of the time the United
States of America has existed". The Burden expresses the voices of
other well-known Americans, such as actor/director Tim Reid who
compares slavery to a cancer diagnosis, former Detroit News
columnist Betty DeRamus who recounts the discrimination she
encountered as a young black Detroiter in the south, and the
actress Aisha Hinds who explains how slavery robbed an entire race
of value and self-worth. This collection of essays is a response to
the false idea that slavery wasn't so bad and something we should
all just "get over". The descendants of slaves have spent over 150
years seeking permission to put this burden down. As Riley writes
in her opening essay, "slavery is not a relic to be buried, but a
wound that has not been allowed to heal. You cannot heal what you
do not treat. You cannot treat what you do not see as a problem.
And America continues to look the other way, to ask African
Americans to turn the other cheek, to suppress our joy, to accept
that we are supposed to go only as far as we are allowed". The
Burden aims to address this problem. It is a must-read for every
American.
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