Book Review: The Covenant with Black America by John Woolf

The Covenant with Black America is the brainchild of Tavis Smiley. For the past seven years, the talk show host has had his own "State of the Black Union" symposium. Seeing that simply exchanging opinions with the nation's top black leaders was not sufficient, he decided to chart a course for the

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Multiculturalists Gone Wild by John K. Press

Buddha is Hiding by Aihwa Ong shows the perils of multicultural policy compounded by multiculturalist thought. Ong's book follows the lives of 50,000 Cambodian refugees we accepted in the 1970s. During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia approximately one third of the population was killed. Many of

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Multiculturalism Blinds Historians by John K. Press

As we have traditionally been a culturist nation, the multiculturalist outlook strips us of our ability to appreciate or understand our past. Applying culturist insights to the bookTranslating Property by Maria E. Montoya provides examples in spades. This book discusses how we settled land disput

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“In-Dependence from Bondage” by Lloyd D. McCarthy: Book Review by Richard R. Blake

In-Dependence from Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley: Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations  by Lloyd D. McCarthy Africa World Press (2007) ISBN 9781592214655 Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (2/07) “In-Dependence from Bonda

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