At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice: Race, Violence and Death in America

Thomas Fensch (Virginia Union University, USA)

At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice: Race, Violence and Death in America
Format
Hardback
Publisher
New Century Books
Published
22 November 2013
Pages
254
ISBN
9780983229667

At the Dangerous Edge of Social Justice: Race, Violence and Death in America

Thomas Fensch (Virginia Union University, USA)

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at the dangerous edge of social justice is a book of profiles on courage on facing prejudice in America. Chapters include: Emmett Till, killed at 14 in 1955; Medgar Evers, killed at 37 in 1963; Malcolm X, killed at 39 in 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr., killed at 39, in 1968, James Byrd Jr. killed at 49 in 1998, Trayvon Martin, killed at 17 in 2012. Other chapters include: John Howard Griffin, who died his skin black and wrote the classic Black Like Me ; Grace Halsell, who died her skin black and wrote Soul Sister ; civil rights icons Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks, Rodney King and others. Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech, an Epilogue shows dramatically how far America is from being a fully post-racist society: blacks are still twice as likely as whites to live in poverty; twice as likely to be unemployed as whites; the net worth of white families is 22 times greater than black families – and on and on – This is a sad, tragic – and powerful – book.

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