One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of RacePosted in Anthropology, Books, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2018-01-22 01:44Z by Steven |
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2000-10-01
544 Pages
Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0374240790
Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson’s search for an answer took him across the country—to the Cherokee Nation, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in Oklahoma—back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured Oakland, California. By not only recounting our shared tragicomedy of race but helping us to own it—even to embrace it—this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it.