The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375713194)

Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts, is to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Get angry, Dickerson says, but use that anger to fuel excellence and civic participation rather than crime or drug addiction. Drawing richly on black history and thought, as well as her own hard-won wisdom, she urges blacks to let go of the past and claim their full freedom. It's only by shaping their own future, she argues, that blacks will finally abolish the myth of white superiority.

Author: Debra J. Dickerson
ISBN-10: 0375713190
ISBN-13: 9780375713194
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2005
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/20/2005 pg. 26