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Lädt ... Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers (1997. Auflage)von Claud Anderson (Autor)
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This book of brief antidotes unearths little-known facts about blacks in America and their achievements under oppressive and inhumane conditions. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Of course, whitey here didn’t feel labeled or whatever, which is the other side of the whole string-of-facts vs Grand Narrative of Abstract Truth thing. I guess in the future I’ll try to read more romance & business “positive” things than history & mainstream religion & ‘good’ literature “negative” things, but if I read more diversity history I guess I’ll keep in mind that sometimes a ‘ordinary/normal’ person wants to rip out a little bit (In 1869, John Henry got whopped by the KKK in Sweet Home, Kentucky! It was safe to kill Negroes!) instead of…. I don’t know, instead of being like an Obama, as great as they are. Sometimes a little negativity is part of the popular view, and if you’re going to look at history and the ‘great’ things, you still don’t have to be subtle and magnificent every time, you know.
I guess at this point in my life, if I were to try to read bell hooks again, I still wouldn’t appreciate the whole left-of-John Lennon-y The Thing You Have To Understand About Whitey Is That He’s The Grand Plague narrative thing, but I think I would have a lot more patience for the general negativity/sexuality/popular stance, you know…. Although there are still some radio songs I don’t like, those admittedly being the white guys who are hopelessly mired in a unique and unremitting world of pain and suffering, that they can only ameliorate by having an orgasm balanced on their mother’s face, you know. The really extreme bullshit, right. I guess I can handle the ordinary bullshit now. After all, the real formal stuff is bullshit too.
…. I don’t always agree fully with his interpretations, but he does find meaningful facts about Black history, and the book really does have some merit, despite being negative, if you like. It’s an odd word, of course. I wouldn’t keep a friend forever who was always and only negative, or read only negative books, but also part of not isolating/not being perfectionist/demanding—to use a less colorful word; there are colorful words for people who forcefully reject negativity; it’s not the best thing sometimes, right—is that you sometimes receive people who are often or sometimes negative, as long as you have agency and it’s not getting you sick, right. Likewise, reading some books that are negative that cover meaningful events about people’s restricting or hostile environments isn’t necessarily something that’s going to make you feel like agency/non-victimhood is unavailable, but is really just, done in the right way, an appropriate display of compassion.
And also not every book has to win an award. To be honest, again, sometimes I wonder how those famous books won their awards. A lot of award committees were pretty inbred, to be polite about it.
…. And the information can be useful. Since I was basically acculturated, far before high school let alone college and youth or whatever, in northern-style racism where we “just” try to keep the censoreds out if we can manage it, I haven’t always understood the whole thing with the old-South-style racism (or that part of that spectrum) where you have Aunt Jemima or whatever…. It just wasn’t the kind of racism I grew up with, you know. It’s hard to explain.