Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad is a columnist and scholar, and
the author of three books. His previous works, Souls For Sale:
The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man, and 50 Years After Brown: The
State of Black Equality In America, were both national
bestsellers and won critical acclaim. Dr. Samad is an Associate
Professor of Political Science at East Los Angeles College, and
is Managing Director and Host of the Urban Issues Forum.
Samad's national column can be read in newspapers and cyber-sites nationwide. His weekly writings can be read at www.blackcommentator.com. For more information about Dr. Samad, go to www.AnthonySamad.com.
Real
Eyez: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Politics
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Publisher: Kabili Press; 1 edition (December 18, 2012)
Format: Kindle eBook
Print Length: 409 pages
In his latest work, bestselling Author/Columnist/Race Scholar, Anthony
Asadullah Samad, takes a scholarly, but irreverent, look at American
Institutions (race, politics, religion and education) and dominant cultural
practices (national identity, racism, sport, social stigmatism, sex,
redemption, counter-culturalism, popular acceptance and tragedy) in a
comparative analysis of societal cultural shifts that have occurred since
the passing of the 20th Century. A cultural critique of American society,
this book examines the increasing influence of "pop culture" practices in
American society. The author draws parallels between American life in the
20th Century and the socio-political and economic realities of the 21st
Century--many of which are dominant practices that have yet to be
acknowledged in a truer construct of societal normality. The "new normal" in
American society is unfamiliar to an "old America" still viewing the nation
in an outdated cultural paradigm.
Many of the "culture clashes we witness in American society today are
functions of changes that have occurred, many barely visible but present in
plain sight. This book chronciles high profile events and issues occurring
in American society before, during and after the millennium change. It
examines the national "cultural mindset" (anti-intellectualism, nacissism,
popular blackness, immigration, Negrophobia, Islamophobia, hypersexuality,
greed and heroism) in popular culture lexicon and draws on the realities of
historical and traditional norms in contemporary, "new thought" philosophies
that drive "what is real" in contemporary American society. REAL EYEZ is a
real look at race, reality and politics in a new 21st Century America
Saving
The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom
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Perfect Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Kabili Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972388036
Saving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom is a book of essays and daily affirmations for young men who face the hard challenges of every day life, and the unique challenge of being black males under siege, in America. The book is designed to inspire young men to think positive, to aspire to achieve, resist negative influences and build faith in their efforts to be successful in life, in love and in their accomplishments. Save The Race targets America "at-risk" populations, young men who are at a crossroads in life, young men re-entering society from juvenile justice and corrections systems, young men afflicted by gangs and the pressures of sex, alcohol, drugs that can lead them into bad decision, and encourages to view failure and momentary challenges as life lessons and opportunities to succeed. Saving The Race is for every young man who needs positive reinforcement in their life, on a daily basis, and for mother, sister and significant other who knows a young without a positive influence in their life. It is the responsibility of us all to "save the race" by reaching to these young men, building their judgment, and help guide their thinking in a way that leads them to, and keeps them on, the right track in life.
50
Years after Brown: The State of Black Equality in America
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Hardcover: 472 pages
Publisher: Kabili Press (February 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972388028
50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America is an assessment of the state of equality for Blacks in America, fifty years after the United States Supreme Court ruled America's nearly sixty year old practice of Jim Crow Segregation was illegal and to be banished from American society. Examining the 50th Anniversary of Brown versus The Board of Education of Topeka, KS , the case that successfully engaged the U.S. Supreme Court to give African Americans full protections under the 14th Amendment and rule "Separate but Equal" de jure segregation as unconstitutional serving as the backdrop, this book looks to assess what equality means in America and whether equality for Blacks has ever been achieved. 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America analyzes the history of equality definitions in America, how equality was obtained, what the "privileges" of equality have been, and what were the conditions under which equality has been maintained. Analyzed in three sections, 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America assesses the reoccurring challenges African Americans have faced, and still face, in their 225 year fight to receive equal benefits and equal protection under the law in the United States of America.
The book, based on research stemming from Samad's on-going dissertation study, highlights several questions relative to, "What is equality in America, and what privileges and societal benefits extend from equality?," "Who is entitled to equality in America?," and most critically, "Have African American ever been extended true equality, and are they 'equal' in today's society of race, class and privilege?" Samad seeks to examine equality in its truest context of civil liberties and civil rights, not only as defined and extended by the Constitution but, as defined by popular culture and practiced through societal attitudes.
Souls for Sale: The Diary of an
Ex-Colored Man: Conflict and Compromise
of Second Generation Advocacy in the Post Civil Rights Era
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Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: Kabili Press; 1 edition (July 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972388001
Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man is a firsthand account (autobiography) about the experiences of a young man seeking to bring change in his community (Los Angeles, CA) and learns about the conflicts and compromises that come with trying to advance a "1980's civil rights" progress agenda. The book focuses on the perspectives of the leadership decisions of a second generation (post-civil rights era) advocate who is ultimately compromised and jailed for taking on controversial issues. The book chronologies the authors involvement in several issues in the mid 1980's of local and national consequence. It is a discussion of the generational conflicts and compromises of the post civil right era advocacy (1980 to the present) and the inner race conflicts of advocating for equality, fairness and principle during the 1980's, a decade of greed, in a time when the Regan Administration began to simultaneously reintroduced a new social construct and targeted economic prosperity ("Reaganomics") that effectively ended the old "civil rights era."
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