The Real Holocaust: A Wholistic Analysis of the African-American Experience, 1441-1994 [Hardcover]

Gyasi A. Foluke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

In The Real-Holocaust-a title adapted from the well-known phrase "the real McCoy"-the basic premise of the author is that Americans have underestimated the damage inflicted upon the nation, especially African people, since the beginning with the European-Arab slave trade in 1441, and continuing to the present era. Simultaneously, we have underestimated the level of commitment required, in both financial and human resources, to solve our perennial, often ugly "race" problem that has created "a great racial divide" in America. Accordingly, the author documents a "guesstimated" 300 million deaths of African people during this nearly 500-year period of history, a figure that may be contrasted to the well known and much better publicized holocaust of World War II, the latter a major tragic event, involving deaths of a "guesstimated" six million Jews. In essence, the author argues that the chronic race problem dividing America will never be resolved until most Americans realize, and successfully confront, this unprecedented ethnic damage-physical, mental and emotional-that oppression has imposed upon African people and their progeny in America. He argues further that oppression, under three distinct "s" stages in America-slavery, segregation and "sedimentation"--has created a fundamental schism between Black and White Americans. And this schism reflects a denial of genuine nationhood to Africans in America who constitute, psycho-spiritually, "a population without a country"-a challenge to the Two Nations (1993) concept of Professor Andrew Hacker. Indeed, the author's arguments are based upon over 50 years of experience in the Black liberation struggle, painstaking research and spiritually profound intuition. Accordingly, he recommends wholism-specific measures to make us "whole"-through the promotion of spirit, mind and body, for all American citizens, including "contingency reparations" for African Americans, on both

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

An author-lecturer-consultant, nontraditional Minister (Cosmic Christian), and part-time CEO of The Kushite Institute for Wholistic Development in Charlotte, NC (http://tkifwd.tripod.com/), Minister (Dr.) Gyasi A. Foluke has been an activist-scholar-author in the struggle for human rights and dignity for over 50 years, beginning at age l6 when he established the first Youth Council of the NAACP in his hometown of Columbia, SC. As a senior high school student, he also wrote the Alma Mater for C. A. Johnson High School. Having written many professional articles, monographs and studies to promote social-institutional change in America, he is the author of The Real-Holocaust: A Wholistic Analysis of the African American Experience, 144l-1994 (1995), * The "Old Time Religion": A Wholistic Challenge to the Black Church (1997), ** The Crisis and Challenge of Black Mis-education in America: Confronting the Destruction of African People Through Euro-centric Public Schools, (2001), The Scoundrel Syndrome: Essays on the African American Experience, 1996-2003, Revisiting The Real-Holocaust (2004) and A Wholistic Freedom Agenda: Practical Remedies for Racial Justice, Beyond Empty Rhetoric, With a Special Focus on Charlotte-Mecklenburg North Carolina (publication pending). A graduate of Howard University, Washington, D. C. 1958 (BA Political Science/Economics, Magna Cum Laude) and American University, Washington, D. C. 1960 (MA Public Administration), the author has pursued protracted (over 25 years), independent, academic-supervised research-studies on Religion-Metaphysics and Black Studies, while earning a non-traditional Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Neotarian College of Philosophy, Kansas City, Missouri, 1980. (Thesis: Universal Oneness: Metaphysical Perspectives on Life). He also served as Adjunct Professor in Black Studies at six universities and colleges, beginning at Creighton University in 1969, and completed two --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 491 pages
• Publisher: Carlton Pr (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806247231
• ISBN-13: 978-0806247236
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,474,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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