TY - BOOK AU - Lemert,Charles C. TI - Dark thoughts: race and the eclipse of society SN - 9781135336967 AV - E184.A1 L444 2002eb U1 - 305.8/00973 22 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Racism KW - United States KW - Racisme KW - États-Unis KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - Race relations KW - fast KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Rassismus KW - gnd KW - 1980-2020 KW - Relations raciales KW - Aspect psychologique KW - USA KW - swd KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dark Days, September 11, 2001; Part I. The Beginnings of a Millennium, 1990s; One; The Coming of My Last Born, April 8, 1998; The Eclipse of Society, 1901-2001; Two; Blood and Skin, 1999; Whose We? Dark Thoughts of the Universal Self, 1998; Three; A Call in the Morning, 1988; The Rights and Justices of the Multicultural Panic, 1990s; Part II. The Last New Century, 1890s; Four; Calling out Father by Calling up His Mother, 1947; The Colored Woman's Office: Anna Julia Cooper, 1892; Five; Get on Home, 1949; Bad Dreams of Big Business: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Six; All Kinds of People Gettin' On, 1954; The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903; Part III. Between, Before, and Beyond, 1873-2020; Seven; When Good People Do Evil, 1989; The Queer Passing of Analytic Things: Nella Larsen, 1929; Eight; What Would Jesus Have Done? 1965; The Race of Time: Deconstruction, Du Bois, and Reconstruction, 1935-1873; Nine; Dreaming in the Dark, November 26, 1997; Justice in the Colonizer's Nightmare: Muhammad, Malcolm, and Necessary Drag, 1965-2020; Ten; A Call in the Night, February 11, 2000; The Gospel According to Matt: Suicide and the Good of Society, 2000Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index N2 - In Dark Thoughts, eminent sociologist Charles Lemert dares to say, and explain, what everyone already knows - that the modern world was built on the need of white people to pretend they are not as dark as the next person. Delving poignantly into the history and literature of domination, Lemert retells key moments of the twentieth-century by profiling figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, Nella Larson, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. In a rare and unflinching look at his own complicated history, Lemert also explores his own racism, his struggle wi UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=653602 ER -