Tag Archives: race_relations
Booklog: April 2010 (American Apartheid)
In the spirit of completeness, let me look back to April of this year… The only book I read was Massey’s classic “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” which looked at the scale, mechanisms, and destructive effects … Continue reading
“The Other” By Ryszard Kapuscinski
I’m usually a bit wary of the “lecture repackaged as book” genre. For the most part, we readers are simply missing too much information, as these lectures were never intended to stand on their own (although I suppose that in … Continue reading
Ulysses S. Grant
Over the weekend I watched the 4 hour PBS documentary on Ulysses S. Grant “Warrior – President” which I’d wholeheartedly recommend to anyone interested in the US Civil War and its immediate aftermath (and frankly, its continued reverberations 100+ years … Continue reading
Human Rights Lit Classics
Reading Dawes’ “That We May Know” made me want to point out a very short list of “Human Rights Classics” that I’ve read in the past 10 years and can recommend whole-heartedly. A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the … Continue reading
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