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Afrolantica Legacies
by Derrick Bell

    Publication Date: Sep 01, 1997
    List Price: $24.95
    Format: Hardcover, 186 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780883781999
    Imprint: Third World Press
    Publisher: Third World Press
    Parent Company: Third World Press

    Description of Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell


    Derrick Bell is perhaps best known for the principled stand he took at Harvard in 1990 when he quit his tenured position on the law-school faculty to protest the school’s failure to grant tenure to a black woman. Now a visiting professor at New York Law School, Bell is still deeply interested in issues of race relations and has chosen to explore the subject fictionally in ""Afrolantica Legacies."" In a nutshell, the story goes like this: a mysterious land mass suddenly appears in the Atlantic Ocean, a fabulous island on which only black people can survive. American blacks set sail to the island to begin a new life, only to see it sink again before they can reach the shore. On the return trip to America, the passengers draw up a list of principles called the Afrolantica Legacies, defining how they want to reposition themselves in American society. The book uses a fictional setting to outline some remedies for the problem of race relations between African Americans and white people in our society.



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