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Title: Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 0-452-27968-2 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good overview of American foreign policy
Comment: This book is not so significant for its detailing of racism in America, which both white and black surely know of. Rather, it is a lovely view at how American foreign policy holds Africa and the Carribean to be simple pawns in their games, not caring for the countries involved nor their residents. Mr. Robinson, founder of TransAfrica, does a fine job criticizing policy to Rhodesia, Haiti, Rwanda, Zaire (now the Congo once more), Jamaica, Nigeria and more. Angry at times, but often rightfully so. Robinson does a fine job using personal experiences to highlight his message. Worth reading for Americans of all skin colors and backgrounds.
Rating: 4
Summary: Angry
Comment: This is an angry book by an angry man. It makes me angry to read it. Not because it is an angry man's angry book, but because it is the sad description of the continued failures of US foreign policy towards African and Caribbean countries and of the stalled process of truly equal opportunities of blacks and whites in the US.
Maybe it is this "machinery" of white-dominated politics that I - being a (white) foreigner in the US - had never heard of Randall Robinson before. The story of his life is impressive and full of open and sublimal encounters of racism in everyday's life. His analysis of the influence of minorities on policy making sounds like a resignation, but describes probably the situation rather well.
I encourage the Amazon customers to dig into this book. However, I did not grant a full five-star rating because I had hoped that I could find a perspective how to improve the situation of blacks and whites (and all other minorities) living together in this melting pot USA. Not that I want a "happy ending" - of which there is none (not yet) - but finally, it's up to us to make it happen?!
Rating: 1
Summary: now i now why cops stop me for no reason...
Comment: it's because of books like this. randall robinson and david duke are on opposite poles of the same page. stop hatin', and start lovin'!!!! god is the way.
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Title: Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land by Randall Robinson ISBN: 0525947582 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 0452282101 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 052594625X Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 10 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393318877 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Race Matters by Cornel West ISBN: 0679749861 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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