TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marable,Manning
TI  - The great wells of democracy: the meaning of race in American life 
SN  - 0465043941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - E185.615 .M283 2003
U1  - 323.1196/073 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Civitas Books
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Racism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Originally published in 2002; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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