Anglický jazyk

at the dangerous edge of social justice

Vydavateľstvo: New Century Books
Rok vydania: 2013
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780983229667

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O knihe

at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America.
Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955; Medgar Evers, killed at 37 in 1963;
Malcolm X, killed at 39 in 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr., killed at 39, in 1968, James Byrd Jr. killed at 49 in 1998, Trayvon Martin, killed at 17 in 2012.
Other chapters include: John Howard Griffin, who died his skin black and wrote the classic "Black Like Me"; Grace Halsell, who died her skin black and wrote "Soul Sister"; civil rights icons Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks, Rodney King and others.
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech," an Epilogue shows dramatically how far America is from being a fully post-racist society: blacks are still twice as likely as whites to live in poverty; twice as likely to be unemployed as whites; the net worth of white families is 22 times greater than black families -- and on and on --
This is a sad, tragic -- and powerful -- book.