[this] should be required reading for all introductory courses in
American and Afro-American history courses. It should perhaps be
the initial book assigned. Wolff provides one of the fullest
treatments to date of how writers of American history have failed
to portray pre- and post-Civil War blacks as individuals with
passion, skills, and a fully developed ironic understanding of
their own situation.
*Jesse T. Moore, Jr., Professor of History, University of
Rochester, and author of The Search for Equality: The National
Urban League, 1910-1961*
Robert Paul Wolff has worn many hats in his distinguished
philosophical career. Now, in this fascinating memoir/manifesto, he
recounts what may be his most remarkable transformation yet: from
unwittingly Eurocentric white Professor of Philosophy to Professor
in an Afro-American Studies Department undergoing a black personal
enlightenment about the real racial history of the United States,
the extent to which textbooks by established authorities in the
field are full of racial mystifications, and -- ineluctably and
most intimately--his own white self.
*Charles Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University
of Illinois, and author of The Racial Contract*
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