The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery

by Leonard Pitts Jr., Allyson Johnson, Rochelle Riley

Book Overview

The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081434514X
• ISBN13: 9780814345146
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.1"