The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (Paperback)

by Manning Marable Description In his boldest and most accessible book, Manning Marable lays out a new way to think about the past and the future of race in America. . Building upon a unique framework for understanding Black History from slavery to Jim Crow to the modern urban ghetto, Marable charts a new course for racial progress. He looks beyond the impasse of liberal strategies such as affirmative action and proposes a new kind of inclusive democracy. 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 l