Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein
Ken Edelstein blogs regularly at http://cultofgreen.com, the Web site where he is editor and publisher. Likethedew.com recommends that our readers check out this new source of alternative journalism in Atlanta. Email

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    Our shared history of racial injustice

    by Ken Edelstein | 2, Add your Comment | Apr 23 09
    Our shared history of racial injustice
    Once in a very long while, a book comes along that can revise a people's view of their own culture — not through abstract theories or appeals to ideology, but by constructing a true narrative based on long-forgotten facts and the stories of real people. Douglas A. Blackmon's "Slavery by Another Name," which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Monday, is such a book. Those who read it are forced to accept a new understanding of the American South — that racial injustice was more violent, widespread and recent than most of us realized, and that it played a ...
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