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Lessons from My Uncle James

"As America at last seems to be "getting beyond race," we face a dilemma. If, as Martin Luther King Jr. "dreamed" in his great 1963 speech at the Washington Monument, the color of our skin seems to matter less with each passing day, the content of our character becomes ever more important. The more we see ourselves as individuals rather than as members of some racial or ethnic group struggling for advantage in a zero-sum political game, the more we must think about the moral guidelines we use in building our individual lives." ...more

93 pages, cloth

ISBN 1-59403-211-1

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