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Faces At The Bottom Of The Well

von Derrick Bell

Non-Fiction Social Science History Law

ISBN

0465068146

Verlag

Basic Books

Erschienen

06.10.1993

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American racism racial justice civil rights African American struggles allegory historical example legal scholarship Derrick Bell racism in America racial equality social justice civil rights movement African American history racial inequality systemic racism legal studies social critique political activism racial theory history sociology cultural studies non-fiction 20th century critical race theory legal analysis social commentary political science African American literature race relations activism social change.

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The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail so long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo. Bell calls on African Americans to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon a misplaced faith in inevitable progress. Only then will blacks, and those whites who join with them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burdens of racism. "Freed of the stifling rigidity of relying unthinkingly on the slogan 'we shall overcome,'" he writes, "we are impelled both to live each day more fully and to examine critically the actual effectiveness of traditional civil rights remedies."