Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism Binding:Paperback a first-person slave narrative written

a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs-brother of Harriet Jacobs-was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia

Greek and Roman myths felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins

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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism Binding:Paperback a first-person slave narrative writtenThe groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice "Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring." Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example including the classic story "The Space Traders" to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society.