Marable, Manning,  1950- <br/><br/>
The great wells of democracy :  the meaning of race in American life / 
Manning Marable. 
 - New York :  Basic Civitas Books,  2003. 
 - xvii, 365 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published in 2002. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Publisher description:    In his boldest and most accessible book to date, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. Exploding traditional lines of left and right, Marable stakes out such controversial and seemingly incompatible positions as the re-enfranchisement of felons, state support for faith-based institutions, reparations for slavery that systematically inject capital into the black community, and a reconfiguration of racial identities that accounts for the increasingly multi-racial nature of our society. He exhorts us to construct a new political language and practical public policies to bridge the racial divide--so that we do no less than reinvent the democratic project called America. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465043941 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004300787 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Civil rights--History.<br/>African Americans--Social conditions.<br/>African Americans--Politics and government.<br/>Racism--Political aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.615  / .M283 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.1196/073