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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...
| Autres auteurs: | , , |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Detriot :
Wayne State University Press,
[2018]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Essays. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource: illustrations ; |
| ISBN: | 9780814345153 |