When the stars begin to fall : overcoming racism and renewing the promise of America /
"Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book, a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution, that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. I...
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The challenge for America. The primary threat to America ; The veiled threats exposed
- Part II: American, but black: lessons for national solidarity. Superlative citizenship ; Inclusion trickles down ; Black solidarity
- A framework for national solidarity. Finding civil religion ; Racism is a crime of the state ; Solidarity is not colorblind
- Part IV: A path toward national solidarity. National solidarity as the right response to racism.