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A 5 page overview of the factors interweaving race and class relations in the United States. Bell's book not only takes a unique approach in regard to presentation, it takes a unique approach in terms of explanation. No additional sources are listed.
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Derrick Bells "And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice" employs a rather unexpected literary approach
to the continued problems we are experiencing as a society as a result of racial inequality. Bell is a Harvard professor, Harvards first tenured black law professor in fact.
To illustrate his views on black/white relations in America, however, Bell employs an unusual format, a format comprised largely of fiction rather than the more technical approach that one
would expect from someone in his field. Through the exploits of the mythical character Geneva Crenshaw Bell documents the shortcomings of civil rights in this country. As Geneva
debates Bell about the rights and wrongs of contemporary race relations and how those rights and wrongs fall on the historical backdrop, Genevas ten "Celestial Chronicles" demonstrate numerous unexpected facts
about race and class relations in the most powerful nation on the earth. While Bells choice of formats is unique to say the
least, the points that he presents are quite technical. Bell contends that although legal provisions have been put into place to resolve racial inequality, that inequality continues to exist
in terms of economics in particular. Bell asserts that social classes have emerged that are differentiated by society not so much in regard to their race but in regard
to economic factors. He suggests that disprivileged blacks and whites band together to bring about entitlement changes that are based not just on race but on class disadvantage.
Geneva illustrates the fact that a persons color or even his or her race or ethnicity, can be one of the most important factors
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