Gospel Choirs

Once again Derrick Bell establishes himself as one of the most powerful voices of the African-American community. He uses a series of allegorical stories and encounters with fictional characters to shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day. A unique blend of imagination and real experience, his stories resound with laughter, love, anger, and bitterness, but these parables carry no illusions or false hopes. The important theme of Christian love works continually to ameliorate messages of bitterness and defeat. More like a novel than the two previous books inspired by Geneva Crenshaw, Gospel Choirs nevertheless addresses important issues: contentious ones such as the controversial "Bell Curve Wars" and the media's handling of black men; at other times inspiring ones, such as the secret strength of black women and the healing role of gospel music in the black community.

First sentence: History has convinced me that the rights and even lives of black people, even as citizens, have always been a commodity subject to barter by white people for their own needs and self-interest.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Basic Books

Editions

2

Pages

240

ISBN

9780465024131

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