Workin' on the Chain Gang

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-472-03198-6
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 154 g

Reihe: Class: Culture

Though slavery was outlawed nearly a century and a half ago, all of us are still in figurative chains of one kind or another. Thus argues Walter Mosley in ""Workin' on the Chain Gang"", a passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people. Each one of us, Mosley claims, is restrained by a system that values money over humanity, power over truth, and conformity over independent thinking. Yet even as Mosley paints a sobering vision of contemporary economic and political reality, he offers a plan to break the fetters of our oppression. First we must recognize that our history is deeply informed by the black experience. Then we must cast off the all-consuming accoutrements of an economic system that keeps us blind to our own and others' humanity. Only then can we hope to achieve our true potential.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mosley, Walter

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Mosley's most recent essay collection is Life Out of Context, published in 2006. He is the best-selling author of five critically acclaimed mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins; the blues novel RL's Dream, a finalist for the NAACP Award in Fiction and winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Literary Award; and the science fiction novel Blue Light. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York.