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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsOne Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Raceby Scott L Malcomson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson's search for an answer took him across the country--to the Cherokee Nation, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in Oklahoma--back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured Oakland, California. By not only recounting our shared tragicomedy of race but helping us to own it--even to embrace it--this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it. Synopsis:In this provocative history of our nation's most distinctive and enduring drama, Malcomson offers a way to move forward from our obsession with race. From Puritan enslavement of Indians to the dramas of separatism we enact daily in schools and neighborhoods, he shows that Americans have perpetually engaged with and fled from other Americans along racial lines. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [519]-568) and index. About the AuthorScott Malcomson's previous books are Tuturani: A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands and Borderlands: Nation and Empire. From 1984 to 1996 he worked at The Village Voice in a variety of jobs, including a seven-year stint as senior editor at the VLS. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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