Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown by Reed, Ishmael

Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781926824567)

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Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown by Reed, Ishmael

Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown

$19.95
Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown by Reed, Ishmael

Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence--including Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn--it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850s. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy, but politicians are also raising stereotypes reminiscent of those which fugitive slaves found it necessary to combat: that African Americans are lazy, dependent, and in need of management. Bold and direct, this book brings an important debate to the surface.

Author: Ishmael Reed
ISBN-10: 1926824563
ISBN-13: 9781926824567
Publisher: Baraka Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/05/2012
Foreword 12/03/2012
By Ishmael Reed
By Ishmael Reed
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Ishmael Reed is an essayist, a novelist, a poet, and a playwright, having won prizes in all categories. He is the author of Airing Dirty Laundry, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, and Juice, and a former professor at the University of California-Berkeley as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. He lives in Oakland, California.

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