The white peril : a family memoir
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/MOSES,O

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/MOSES,O Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2024]
DESCRIPTION

xiv, 261 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780807004821, 0807004820 :, 0807004820, 9780807004821
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In the distance between us (I) -- The king of the court -- Out of Africa -- Freedom fighters -- Becoming black -- Cookie and the dust -- The wild -- The math lab -- American heroes -- American heroes, Continued -- Building demand -- In the distance between us (II) -- The king of the port -- The White Peril -- Black consciousness -- In the distance between us (III) -- A wave

In The White Peril, Omo Moses interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice