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"Racine is a reserved young man, but his passion for music lights him up inside. He's just returned from Paris where he'd been invited by a friend to produce music, make recordings, and earn a living. The plan didn't quite pan out, and now he's back in New York, where fate, providence, or just plain chance leads him into a squat by a few eccentric loners." "There's Manny, who wears sarongs and has glitter but has not trouble attracting beautiful women, and Couchette, a gorgeous second-generation dancer whose mother has gone to Bali to live and bear a child with a man who built her a house in the midst of a rice paddy. What binds the characters is a deep sense of loss. Each is - like the city they live in - wounded and seeking healing and connection with and through the other housemates."--BOOK JACKET.
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Race relations, African Americans, Inner cities, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Brownstone buildings, Influence, Fiction, Musicians, Young men, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Squatters, United states, race relations, United states, history, World history, United States -- Race relations, Nonfiction, PhilosophyPlaces
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Darkwater: voices from within the veil
2004, Washington Square Press
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Darkwater: voices from within the veil
1975, Kraus-Thomson Organization
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Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1920.
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In The Souls of Black Folk the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois introduced the concept of the “veil,” a separation of the inner lives of black Americans from their white counterparts. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is a collection of essays, poems, and short fiction that attempts to provide a nuanced look behind the veil at the lives of black Americans and to give voice to their often neglected concerns.
Written in the aftermath of the First World War, seventeen years after The Souls of Black Folk and during a time when racial tension had been codified into the infamous Jim Crow laws, Du Bois touches on a wide range of topics, from the philosophical to the concrete. His over-arching message is a desire for equality. He argues strongly against colonialism, excessive materialism, and Jim Crow, and discusses how only proper education and universal suffrage can provide the foundation for a more fair society. The unique combination of different writing styles on display vividly captures both his frustration and his belief in the possibility of a future shared on an equal basis between people of all colors.
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