{"product_id":"coming-through-the-fire-9780822317364","title":"Coming through the Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddresses the important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. This book explores the nature of biracial relationships, the issue of transracial adoption, violence particularly black-on-black violence the endangered black male, racism as power, and the relationship between Blacks and Jews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first consciousness of race comes early. It is not something you learn in the same way you learn about stinging caterpillars or poison ivy. You do not have to learn it from some overt experience.  It is a pervasive awareness, an insidious thing that seeps into the soil of consciousness, sending its toxic tendrils deep into the walls of the mind. It is like a mold, a blight. If you scrape it away here, you find it mockingly virulent there. Once the concept of race takes root in the mind, it is there to stay. You cannot run away from it because it is \u003ci\u003einside\u003c\/i\u003e you. . . . In the South, where I was raised, the pervasive awareness of race was helped along by a series of ‘lessons’ learned in the process of growing up. These lessons were sometimes impromptu, and often impersonal, but they were never unplanned or unintended. They were always there in the arsenal of race and place waiting for the most effective moment for inculcation.”—From \u003ci\u003eComing through the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Notes on Race        1\u003cbr\u003e II. The Fire in Alabama        11\u003cbr\u003e III. Mind and Countermind: Race and Place in Context        39\u003cbr\u003e IV. Polyps of Prejudice        69\u003cbr\u003e V. Search for identity: The Whatness of Who        91\u003cbr\u003e VI. Human Values and Inhuman Systems        113\u003cbr\u003e VII. Into the Multiculture        135","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884712112471,"sku":"9780822317364","price":29.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822317364.jpg?v=1722533134","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coming-through-the-fire-9780822317364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}