Racism

by Albert Memmi

Book Overview

Albert Memmi's controversial statements about racism and his call to each of us to devote ourselves to its eradication--futile though this effort will be--are straightforward and lucid, yet also powerful and universal. In this remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of contemporary life, Memmi investigates racism as social pathology--a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816631646
• ISBN13: 9780816631643
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 242 Pages