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Race and Reckoning : From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors, EPUB eBook

Race and Reckoning : From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors EPUB

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Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work thatinvestigateshow pivotal decisions have established and perpetuated discriminatory practices, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.

Throughout our nations history, numerous racialized decisions have solidified the fates of generations of citizens of color. Some of the earliest involved race-based slavery, the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands, and the exclusion of most Asians. More have proliferated over time. While America grew into a superpower in the twentieth century, it continued to discriminate against people of colorboth soldiers who served overseas and civilians on the home front, herding Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II and denying Black citizens their right to vote.

American Politicians have waxed eloquently and endlessly about bettering the nation. But bettering it for whom? journalist and cultural commentator Ellis Cose asks. From Reconstruction to the New Deal to the unceasing fight for civilrights, Cose reveals how the hopes of many Americans for a true multicultural democracy have been repeatedly frustrated by white nationalists skilled at weaponizing racial anxieties of other whites.

InRace and ReckoningCose dissects chapter-by-chapter how Americas overall narrative breeds racial resentment rooted in conjecture over fact. Through rigorous research and with astute detail, Cose uncovers how, at countless points in history, Americas leaders have upheld a narrative of American greatness rooted in racism,as he offers a hopeful yet clear-eyed vision of American possibility.

It is a story grounded in history, and it demolishes the myths that ultimately allowed one of the most ill-prepared, unethical, vindictive, and truth-challenged politicians in history to position himself as Americas savior by tapping into the nations darkest tendencies.

A "pointed rebuke of American exceptionalism,wasPublishers Weekly's description ofRace and Reckoning.

Whereas many politicians argue for ignoring or rewriting unflattering history, this is a passionate and incisive argument for acceptingand learning fromhistorical truth and rejecting ignorance disguised as patriotism. An important work that merits a place on ethnic studiesand American historycurricula, observed Kirkus.

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