Race Course

by Ayers, William C.

• ISBN13: 9780883782910
• ISBN10: 088378291X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Third World Pr

Summary

White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days -- and that it is still very much with us -- the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.

Author Biography

William C. Ayers is a distinguished professor of education and a senior university scholar at the University of  Illinois–Chicago. He is the author of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher and Fugitive Days, a memoir about his life with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Bernardine Dohrn is the director of the Children and Family Law Justice Center and a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University. She is the coauthor of  A Century of Juvenile Justice and Justice in the Making. They live in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Statement	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Freedom Now!	p. 1
Awake!	p. 19
Born Into War	p. 43
The Modern Slave Ship	p. 53
"Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery"	p. 67
The Anchor of Race	p. 77
John Brown's Seminar	p. 83
The Lengthening Legacy	p. 93
From Activism to Resistance	p. 107
Scenes From an Imagined Interrogation	p. 117
Fight Back	p. 121
Questionnaire	p. 131
Affirmative Action: For Whites Only	p. 133
Colorblind	p. 145
Two Systems of Youth Justice	p. 157
School and Society	p. 179
Trudge Toward Freedom, Crawl Toward Love	p. 207
Note: November 2008	p. 219
An Eclectic Reader	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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