Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, Gunnar Myrdal, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. What do they all have in common, besides being deceased and white men? Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in Americapublished in two volumes (1835 and 1840) in which he made observations about the impact of slavery on the newly-formed American society; Gunnar Myrdal ( a Swedish economist) wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) on U.S. race relations; and Governor Otto Ker... Continue reading ...
Drs. Marilyn Thomas-Houston, Irma McClaurin, Sybil Rosado, Faye V. Harrison
The
recent 96th Annual Meeting of ASALH (the Association for the Study of
African American Life and History) held October 6-10, 2011 in Richmond,
VA provided a rich opportunity to reflect on the status and history of
Black people in America, and in the world. It also spoke to my idea of
“legacymaking”—something in which I have a strong interest, as its
ongoing presence reflects the vision and intellectual... Continue reading ...
