Gene Dattel: 2 books
Cotton and Race in the Making of America
The Human Costs of Economic Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil...
Reckoning with Race
America's Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to...