A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America [Kindle Edition] Author: Jacqueline Jones | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H1YPUTE | Format: PDF, EPUB
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In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled—yet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us.
Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.
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- File Size: 4159 KB
- Print Length: 402 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0465036708
- Publisher: Basic Books (December 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00H1YPUTE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,884 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Interesting stories, but the theme does not hold together. The connections are strained. Each story shows how race is defined and constructed through out American History and how blacks responded to those constructs. The most important lesson from this book is that race is created for control and confiscation and is not based on any inherent characteristics of the racially marginalized. Thanks.
By Purple Dragon
Graet scholarship and writing by someone who does the books she wants to do because she feels the book needs to be done instead of what others feel she might do for fame and fortune. The scholarship is excellent, as with all of her books.
By Robert Davis Jr.
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