Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History Paperback - 2006
by Walter Mosley
The author of "Devil in a Blue Dress" offers a powerful examination of the American economic and political machine and challenges readers to cast off the chains of yesterday's society, insisting that the nation and its potential are ours to command.
From the rear cover
A fiery call to arms from one of America's most brilliant black voices
"Black American history is American history. There is an echo of Jim Crow in the HMO: people shunted aside, denied access, and allowed to suffer with no real democratic recourse. Downsizing is an excellent way of robbing a worker of her accrued wealth. The widening gap between rich and poor is a way of demonizing the latter, because poverty is a sin in the richest country in the world. These new systems of injustice wear the trappings of freedom, but they are just as unacceptable as their forebears. The only difference is that under these systems we all suffer. This time everyone is a potential victim".
-- from WORKIN' ON THE CHAIN GANG
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- Title Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
- Author Walter Mosley
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Michigan Press, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Date December 27, 2006
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780472031986 / 0472031988
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.37 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 0.94 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, United States - Social conditions - 1980-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006052977
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 63
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