The Color Curtain (Banner Books) [Paperback]

Richard Wright (Author), Amritjit Singh (Afterword), Gunnar Myrdal (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 087805748X | ISBN-13: 978-0878057481 | Publication Date: January 1995

This indispensable work urging removal of the color barrier remains one of the key commentaries on the question of race in the modern era.

First published in 1956, it arose from Richard Wright's participation in a global conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955.

With this report of what happened at Bandung, Wright exhorts Western nations, largely responsible for the poverty and ignorance in their former colonies, to destroy racial impediments and to work with the leadership of the new nations in moving toward modernization and industrialization under a free democratic system rather than under Communist totalitarianism.

CONTENTS: Foreword by Gunnar Myrdal * Bandung: Beyond Left and Right * Race and Religion at Bandung * Communism at Bundung * Racial Shame at Bundung * The Western World at Bandung * Afterword by Amritjit Singh

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

"It seems probable that no white Westerner, no African or Asian could have summoned up sufficient objectivity to write it," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 1/15/56). Here, Wright (whose novel, Savage Holiday, is listed above) describes what transpired at the Asian African Bandung Conference of 1955, deducing that religion and race are what truly separates nations.
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Review

Long unavailable until this reprint is a 1956 classic which arose from author Wright's participation in an Indonesian conference. Here Wright exhorts Western nations to destroy racial barriers and to work on an international level to create free democracies around the world, effectively eliminating the barrier posed by race. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 245 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087805748X
• ISBN-13: 978-0878057481
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard T. Wright holds a Ph.D in biology from Harvard University and is professor emeritus of biology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and is widely sought as a lecturer in biology and ecology.