Americanah: A novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults) "She had always found it a little irresponsible, the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men" $12.99 to $1.99 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.5/5 (47,852 Reviews)
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Americanah: A novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
"She had always found it a little irresponsible, the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men"
$12.99 to $1.99
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.5/5 (47,852 Reviews)
#fiction#literature#race#immigration#love#Nigeria#Americanah#BookSky
"Many Democrats continue to resist a colorblind approach to politics by arguing that race-conscious policies are necessary to right past wrongs. But if your political approach is so radioactive that you can’t achieve power in the first place, you can’t help anyone, let alone underprivileged minorities.
But there is a broader principle to be defended here as well. In the immediate aftermath of Jim Crow, race was a mostly accurate measure for disadvantage, especially among Black people. In today’s America, this is no longer the case.
As the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, a civil rights activist for whom I worked in 2024, has noted in his recent book on the topic, there are tens of millions more poor white people than Black people in the United States today, yet our national image of poverty is stubbornly focused on Black and brown people.
Moving away from …
"Many Democrats continue to resist a colorblind approach to politics by arguing that race-conscious policies are necessary to right past wrongs. But if your political approach is so radioactive that you can’t achieve power in the first place, you can’t help anyone, let alone underprivileged minorities.
But there is a broader principle to be defended here as well. In the immediate aftermath of Jim Crow, race was a mostly accurate measure for disadvantage, especially among Black people. In today’s America, this is no longer the case.
As the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, a civil rights activist for whom I worked in 2024, has noted in his recent book on the topic, there are tens of millions more poor white people than Black people in the United States today, yet our national image of poverty is stubbornly focused on Black and brown people.
Moving away from race-conscious politics and developing a more holistic program that will address poverty and disadvantage from the streets of Baltimore to the mountains of Blairsville will not only help deflate the white identity movement that empowers the Stephen Millers of the world, but it will also ensure that Democrats can build a political agenda that everyone can relate to."
"He hoped that integration would not only remove the barriers that held African Americans back but also eliminate racial thinking altogether.
“As the color differential fades,” he wrote, “so will the racial point of view. Less and less will it be possible to speak with accuracy of Negro newspapers, Negro churches or the Negro vote. More and more, economic, social, and professional status will be more decisive in determining a man’s orientation than the color of his skin.”
It’s important to note that King did not believe that America could go from slave state to apartheid state to colorblind overnight. Importantly, he saw integration and the elimination of the “racial point of view” as the outcome of the “color differential” in society fading away. There’s still tremendous work to do to make sure we reach that point in American society — …
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"He hoped that integration would not only remove the barriers that held African Americans back but also eliminate racial thinking altogether.
“As the color differential fades,” he wrote, “so will the racial point of view. Less and less will it be possible to speak with accuracy of Negro newspapers, Negro churches or the Negro vote. More and more, economic, social, and professional status will be more decisive in determining a man’s orientation than the color of his skin.”
It’s important to note that King did not believe that America could go from slave state to apartheid state to colorblind overnight. Importantly, he saw integration and the elimination of the “racial point of view” as the outcome of the “color differential” in society fading away. There’s still tremendous work to do to make sure we reach that point in American society — expanding opportunity to every community in America and continuing to reduce prejudice are ongoing projects.
But I think it’s important to remember what MLK viewed as his North Star and make sure that the cultural and political elites who invoke his name so frequently make it theirs as well. Achieving King’s dream means eventually transcending race, not reifying it."
“Belief has nothing to do with truth. Believe what you like. Believe I’m lying and move through the world as a white boy. Believe I’m telling the truth and move through the world as a white boy anyway. Either way, no difference.”
Encyclopedia of Race and Crime by Helen Taylor Greene, 2010
As seen almost daily on local and national news, race historically and presently figures prominently in crime and justice reporting within the United States, in the areas of hate crimes, racial profiling, sentencing disparities, wrongful convictions, felon disenfranchisement, political prisoners, juveniles and the death penalty, and culturally specific delinquency prevention programs.
Wer noch Inspo für gute Geschenke oder Lesestoff für die Ferien braucht: Here comes our Top 5 im Buchhandel, ausgesucht von unseren werten Leser:innen: Frantz Fanon / Diversität der Ausbeutung / Marx als Demokrat / Das Kapital / Johannes Agnoli ❤️ Alles auf http://dietzberlin.de 🎄
INCISIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS on race and the Internet encompass many of humanity’s most beautiful creations (video games, literature, philosophy) and many of its ugliest (bigotry, torture, colonialism). Always insightful, often witty. A MINUS
INCISIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS on race and the Internet encompass many of humanity’s most beautiful creations (video games, literature, philosophy) and many of its ugliest (bigotry, torture, colonialism). Always insightful, often witty. A MINUS
"A social-media ad campaign from the Department of Labor is going viral for featuring a dozen or more images of young, blond, white men with strong jawlines and cleft chins, in blue-collared workmen’s shirts and jeans—such great jeans. ...
It’s not the use of AI that’s giving everyone pause, of course."
Wichtiges Buch, daher: Auflage 5 ist da! Bester Input zur Verschränkung von Rassismus und Kapitalismus im großartigen Sammelband »Die Diversität der Ausbeutung. Zur Kritik des herrschenden Antirassismus«. Congrats, @bafikush + Eleonora R. Mendívil ❤️ Lesen: https://dietzberlin.de/die-diversitaet-der-ausbeutung
#SCOTUS is hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the #VotingRightsAct that is designed to protect racial minorities.
Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.
