Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism Audiobook (Free)

The classic focus on American racism as well as the struggle for racial justice

In Faces at the Bottom of the Good, civil legal rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism can be an essential and permanent a part of American society. African American challenges for equality are doomed to fail as long as the majority of whites usually do not observe their very own well-being threatened with the status quo. Bell phone calls on African Americans to face up to this disappointed truth and depart a misplaced beliefs in inevitable improvement. Only after that will blacks, and the ones whites who sign up for with them, maintain a position to create viable ways of relieve the burdens of racism. ‘Freed of the stifling rigidity of relying unthinkingly for the slogan ‘we shall overcome,” he writes, ‘we are impelled both to live each day even more fully also to examine critically the real performance of traditional civil rights remedies.’

With a new foreword by Michelle Alexander, Faces in the bottom from the Well is urgent and essential reading over the problem of racism in the us.