The Burden : African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery /
This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wayne State University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past. |
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Notas: | Essays. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource: illustrations ; |
ISBN: | 9780814345153 |