Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just another name for denial? In this penetrating and provocative book, Ellis Cose probes the depths of the American mind and exposes the contradictions, fears, hopes and illusions embedded in our complicated perceptions of race. Looking beyond the platitudes and pronouncements that tend to distort reality rather than illuminate it, Cose offers a visionary analysis of the steps we must take if we are serious about finding a true resolution to the...
Is a truly race-netrual society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is color blindness just a...
In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of the power of reconciliation, the efficacy of revenge, and the possibility of forgiveness. People increasingly are searching for ways to put the demons of the past to rest. That search has led parents to seek out the murderers of their children and torture victims to confront their former tormentors. In...
In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled...
"A tremendously important book--gracefully done, painfully perceptive...fearless in its honesty." --Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities
"The most authoritative accounting I've seen of where our country stands in its unending quest to resolve the racial dilemma on which it was founded." --Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home
"The End of Anger may be the defining work on America's new racial dynamics." --Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Ellis Cose is a...
"A tremendously important book--gracefully done, painfully perceptive...fearless in its honesty." --Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequ...