Going Too Far: Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown

by Ishmael Reed

Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence--including Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn--it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850s. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy, but politicians are also raising stereotypes reminiscent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926824563
• ISBN13: 9781926824567
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Baraka Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 10.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"