Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580463134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Jesse T. --Charles Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, and author of The Racial Contract . (this) should be required reading for all introductory courses in American and Afro-American history courses. It should perhaps be the initial book assigned. Wolff provides one of the fullest treatments to date of how writers of American history have failed to portray pre- and post-Civil War blacks as individuals with passion, skills, and a fully developed ironic understanding of their own situation. Moore, Jr., Professor of History, University of Rochester, and author of The Search for Equality: The National Urban League, 1910-1961 Robert Paul Wolff has worn many hats in his distinguished philosophical career. Now, in this fascinating memoir/manifesto, he recounts what may be his most remarkable transformation yet: fr
. Robert Paul Wolff is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of numerous books, including Introductory Philosophy and In Defense of Anarchism
Slavery is thus not an aberration, an accident, a Peculiar Institution -- it is the essence and core of the American experience. E. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and his experiences in the Department with his new colleagues, all of whom had come to Academia from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. America, he realized, has from its inception been a land both of Freedom and of Bondage -- Freedom for the few, and then for those who are White, Bondage at first for the many, and then for those who are not White. Reading as widely as possible to bring himself up to speed in his new field of academic responsibility, Wolff realized after a bit that his picture of
royal hartigan said the continuing plague of amerikkkan racism. great book, it shows the reality of race in the u.s. since its beginning until the present. sadly, the continuing racism against people of color at all levels and parts of our so-called 'country', whose surface ideals are proven to be nothing more than window dressing for the ruling class and its agenda of divide and conquer.