This accessible, challenging discussion of race relations looks at how institutions shape individual experience and asks how we can prevent a violent splintering of American society along racial lines in the 21st century. Arguing that the best way to understand race relations is through the personal accounts of individuals as they go through the life cycle, this highly readable book uses real life stories to illuminate how families, peer groups, and workplaces influence views about other racial and ethnic groups. The authors hope to inspire readers to intervene and counteract negative perceptions of racial difference through their open, frank discussion of the racial divide.
This book is about an individual whose soul searches life and finds treasures of human nature within and all around. Or it is about a particular race and their common threads that make them one. Or still, it is, on global level, integrating the nature of humans into a common Soul, a common bond, and a common heritage. It captures the paradox of reality and justice, as seen through images of those courageous enough to have dreams. The poet shares his photographs of everyday life and his real characters that, believe it or not, are our neighbors...yet the impact of his art transforms these fresh images into a moral consciousness that needs to be awakened if our needy Soul is to integrate globally. Kisubi's poetry mirrors the disruptions of the last two decades in vivid, economic language. His lines are frequently short and explosive." Steve Paul (A - rts Editor, Kansas City Star), Kansas City, Missouri: There is a seriousness about Alfred's poems which reflects their mood. There is disillusion, distress at the divisive nature of our society, awareness of individual isolation." Alfred seems particularly concerned to step back out of the stream of action to evaluate what life means to him so far and how his personal experience has led him, like Hamlet, to a vision of general truths, or perhaps more often to the asking of those questions which we need to ask if we are to escape from wasteland." - Margaret McPherson, Former Professor of Literature Makerere University, Uganda
Hitchcock is still one of the most instantly recognizable film directors. These conversations dramatize his wit, intelligence, sophistication, serious contemplation, and even the playful manipulation of the interviewer.
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