This new edition of T. Thomas Fortune's masterpiece -- originally
published in 1884 -- presents a classic work of African-American
political thought to a new generation of readers.
Like the intellectual giants who emerged before and after him --
Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois -- T. Thomas Fortune was a
writer, activist, and public intellectual. Born into slavery,
Fortune became the leading black journalist of his generation, and
he was the most eloquent and influential African-American radical
of the late nineteenth century.
"Black and White" offers Fortune's brilliant analysis of racism
as a systemic, institutionalized practice that had undermined
America's Enlightenment ideals from the time of the nation's
founding. Asserting that the abolition of slavery had in no way
diminished the virulence of white racism, he insisted that
share-cropping, chain gangs, lynching, and the denial of civil
rights had forced black Americans into a terrible new form of
enslavement. With a prophetic voice, Fortune argued that if the
United States was ever to realize its long-betrayed promise of
equality, it would need not only to end racial prejudice but also
to create a more just economic order.
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