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Race in the Global Era
African Americans at the Millenium
Clarence Lusane; Julianne Malveaux (Foreword)
Pages: 256ISBN: 0-89608-574-0
Format: cloth
Release Date: 1997-01-01
This book is also available in paper
A global guide to the cultural and economic implications of O.J., Tupac, and Farrakhan for race politics as African Americans face the 21st century.
Lusane is the author of Pipe Dream Blues (which in 1990 was described by the Christic Institute as the "single most important book on this crisis in the last few years") and African Americans at the Crossroads. The Black Books Bulletin noted, "People do not like to read the sort of things that Lusane writes about, but he gives us facts that will not go away."
Race in the Global Era uniquely contextualizes US racial issues in a global context. Its provocative, accessible essays also examine key racial events and popular culture issues, from a critique of TV's "Married With Children" to Tupac Shakur, O.J. Simpson, the CIA-crack cocaine connection, and Ebonics.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Julianne Malveaux
Introduction
1 Globalization's Impact on Race Relations
2 If I Were a Rich Man
3 California Scheming
4 To Be or Not to Be?
5 O.J. and the Symbolic Uses of Racial Exceptions
6 Thug Life
7 Globalizing the Black Image
8 How Cracked is the CIA-Contra Drug Connection?
9 The Souls of White Folk
10 Old Stories from the New South
11 Of Louis Farrakhan and Others
12 Beyond Patriarchy and Conservative Nationalism