The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture

The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture
ISBN-10
0876900015
ISBN-13
9780876900017
Series
The Omni-americans
Category
Political science (General)
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
1970
Publisher
Outerbridge & Dienstfrey
Author
Albert Murray

Description

The Omni-Americans is a classic collection of wickedly incisive essays, commentaries, and reviews on politics, literature, and music. Provocative and compelling, Albert Murray debunks the "so-called findings and all-too-inclusive extrapolations of social science survey technicians," contending that "human nature is no less complex and fascinating for being encased in dark skin." His claim that blacks have produced "the most complicated culture, and therefore the most complicated sensibility in the western world" is elucidated in a book which, according to Walker Percy, "fits no ideology, resists all abstractions, offends orthodox liberals and conservatives, attacks social scientists and Governor Wallace in the same breath, sees all the faults of the country, and holds out hope in the end."

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