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Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism

Author: Derrick A Bell
Publisher: New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The message of Bell's book is that "racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society." He contends that blacks "are doomed to fail as long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo."--Cover.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bell, Derrick A.
Faces at the bottom of the well.
New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1992
(OCoLC)645757516
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Derrick A Bell
ISBN: 0465068170 9780465068173 0465068146 9780465068142
OCLC Number: 25410809
Description: xiv, 222 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Divining our racial themes --
Racial symbols: a limited legacy --
The Afrolantica awakening --
The Racial Preference Licensing Act --
The last black hero --
Divining a racial realism theory --
The rules of racial standing --
A law professor's protest --
Racism's secret bonding --
The space traders --
Epilogue: beyond despair.
Responsibility: Derrick Bell.
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The message of Bell's book is that "racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society." He contends that blacks "are doomed to fail as long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo."--Cover.

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