E-raamat: Who Speaks for the Negro?

"Warrens book remains a luminous volume about race, racism, the South, black America, and our national destiny.  It consistently reflects the uncommon courage, integrity, and prophetic imagination that made him such a towering cultural interpreter when it first appeared. We ignore or forget his work at our peril."Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University -- Arnold Rampersad "There are so many takes on history. In this new edition introduced by the eminent historian David Blight, Who Speaks for the Negro? reveals a provocative admixture of history's variance. Warren's book is a burden of the past from which we cannot escape. In somewhat melancholic ways, it is also symptomatic and axiomatic with respect to the nightmarish heartbeat of America's indefatigable repetition of racial discrimination. It summons us to awaken a more vital national heartbeat of reparations for an American dilemma."Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University -- Houston Baker "Not exactly a stroll down memory lane and certainly not a song to sing, yet, Who Speaks For The Negro, brings back a question one would have thought already answered.  We still search Americas soul for how to and who to include.  Robert Penn Warren has, as did Gunnar Myrdal a bit later, brought the possibilities forward.  This is still a book worthy of your time and somehow still a part of ours."Nikki Giovanni   -- Nikki Giovanni As one interviewed by Robert Penn Warren I was both suspicious and hopeful about his project. Amid the turmoil of Vietnam and the Selma to Montgomery march the book was underappreciated. Fifty years later we have this archival treasure that demonstrates why the Civil Rights Movement in fact gave our land its second equality, life and liberty movement.Reverend James Lawson    -- Reverend James Lawson