Thank you for supporting our publishing ministry. To keep reading, subscribe-subscriptions begin at $4.95-or log in. RT SandyDarity: Wow Great to see IrstenKMullen’s and my second edition of From Here to Equality back as the top seller in Amazon’s Income Inequality category. This article is available to Christian Century magazine subscribers only. The civil rights movement of the 1960s was walked back every time it began to come to terms with the injustice of the American system. The generosity of the New Deal was willfully discriminatory and parsimonious toward Black Americans. RT qadirahx: Lord of the Flies, To Kill A Mockingbird, Voice of the Ancestors All Five Parts, From Here to Equality, Assata Shakur biography. Reconstruction promptly regressed to White supremacy. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution refused to fulfill their own high-flying rhetoric when it came to race.

And at every turn, Darity and Mullen argue, it has failed.

Our republic, at every turn, has had the chance to deal constructively with the shame and brutality caused by slavery and its aftermath. Kirsten Mullen’s new volume stakes out a compelling position on a critical matter: the crisis that remains from having left the emancipated slaves of the US South landless and without resources.įrom Here to Equality begins with an extended historical review of a roster of missed opportunities to resolve the economic inequality this caused. Among an explosion of good literature on the subject, William Darity and A. The recurring exhibits of police violence toward Black people and the responses of Black Lives Matter activists, regularly punctuated by the racist dog whistles of President Trump, assure that race will be a core subject of our public conversation for a very long time to come.

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