South of Haunted Dreams: A Ride Through Slavery's Old Back Yard
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671748963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jay Ex said Great perspective regarding race and ethnicity. Read it for a class and got to meet Eddy Harris at a university sponsored event. Great guy and great read! Totally recommend!!!. A black writer confronts the South and his demons Eddy L. Harris is the best modern-day "travel" writer there is, bar none. He has gone down the Mississippi in a canoe, trekked across Africa and even written a book about his explorations, both internal and external, of today's Harlem.Harris is a writer who happens to be black. He doesn't want people to judge him because he's black any more than because he has a beard or is tall, but blacknes. "South of Haunted Dreams" according to Big G. I was given one of Harris' autographed books as a gift, liked it, and bought his others. I liked this book because it was in "first person" and he told the adventure as he saw it. He started his trip expecting, and looking for, racism in the south. He did find racism, but before the trip was over he realized he too was a racist.I have loaned his books to others who I felt needed to see both s
The St. From Publishers Weekly "How eagerly I had anticipated evil at every turn," writes Harris ( Native Stranger ) near the end of this impassioned account of his recent motorcycle tour of the South. Louis, Mo., resident began his journey through the country of his slave forebears filled with rage at the treatment of his people, fearful for his safety and expecting indignities worse than those he was subjected to in the North. . One black man insists that blacks in the North have run away from the "real struggle" while tho
The author of Mississippi Solo and Native Stranger recounts his motorcycle journey through the South, discusses what it means to be black, and describes his search for traces of his own great-great-grandfather. 40,000 first printing. Tour.