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This elegant memoir by Randall Robinson, political activist and founder/president of TransAfrica--an organization that lobbies for African and Caribbean interests that was instrumental in defeating Apartheid in South Africa--details the triumphant life of a warrior dedicated to fighting racism and shows us by his brilliant example how to carry on the fight. You can almost hear Robinson's booming, southern baritone in his forceful prose when he writes about segregation in his native Richmond, Virginia, his experiences at African American Virginia Union University and Harvard Law School, and his near-death from a 27-day fast to protest the government's anti-Haitian immigration policies. Robinson conveys a profound sense following the 1989 AIDS-related death of his brother, ABC News anchor Max Robinson: "In that final year we drew closer as a family, saying to each other the important things, leaving aside the extraneous." On the subject of race, Robinson leaves us with this warning: "Our nation's white leaders have elected, consciously or unconsciously, to ignore the deepening national racial crisis.... Better we face the painful problem now than the conflagration looming ahead." --Eugene Holley, Jr.
From Library Journal
Robinson founded TransAfrica in 1977 to reverse U.S. support of South Africa, and his evocative, eight-essay memoir recalls the life that brought him to organize against that country's apartheid system and to lobby to empower and free black peoples in Africa and the Americas. Moving easily from childhood in a strong black family of nurturing parents and talented siblings in Richmond, Virginia, to Harvard law school and then to the policy wars in Washington, D.C., Robinson offers personal observations that champion decency and sanity as the foundation of national social and foreign policy. More than a splendid inner view to complement the panoramic view of Robert Kinloch Massie's Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, Robinson's slices of what he sees as unflattering truths make required reading for anyone even remotely curious about black America and American racism or about U.S. policymaking in general toward the black world. Highly recommended. [For a review of Massie's book, see p. 126.?Ed.]?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Temp.
-?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This elegant memoir by Randall Robinson, political activist and founder/president of TransAfrica--an organization that lobbies for African and Caribbean interests that was instrumental in defeating Apartheid in South Africa--details the triumphant life of a warrior dedicated to fighting racism and shows us by his brilliant example how to carry on the fight. You can almost hear Robinson's booming, southern baritone in his forceful prose when he writes about segregation in his native Richmond, Virginia, his experiences at African American Virginia Union University and Harvard Law School, and his near-death from a 27-day fast to protest the government's anti-Haitian immigration policies. Robinson conveys a profound sense following the 1989 AIDS-related death of his brother, ABC News anchor Max Robinson: "In that final year we drew closer as a family, saying to each other the important things, leaving aside the extraneous." On the subject of race, Robinson leaves us with this warning: "Our nation's white leaders have elected, consciously or unconsciously, to ignore the deepening national racial crisis.... Better we face the painful problem now than the conflagration looming ahead." --Eugene Holley, Jr.
From Library Journal
Robinson founded TransAfrica in 1977 to reverse U.S. support of South Africa, and his evocative, eight-essay memoir recalls the life that brought him to organize against that country's apartheid system and to lobby to empower and free black peoples in Africa and the Americas. Moving easily from childhood in a strong black family of nurturing parents and talented siblings in Richmond, Virginia, to Harvard law school and then to the policy wars in Washington, D.C., Robinson offers personal observations that champion decency and sanity as the foundation of national social and foreign policy. More than a splendid inner view to complement the panoramic view of Robert Kinloch Massie's Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, Robinson's slices of what he sees as unflattering truths make required reading for anyone even remotely curious about black America and American racism or about U.S. policymaking in general toward the black world. Highly recommended. [For a review of Massie's book, see p. 126.?Ed.]?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Temp.
-?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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