Afrolantica Legacies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780883781999)

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.

Author: Derrick Bell
ISBN-10: 0883781999
ISBN-13: 9780883781999
Publisher: Third World Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.85h x 5.88w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/22/1997 pg. 41
Booklist 01/01/1998 pg. 750
Library Journal 01/01/1998 pg. 122
New York Times 04/05/1998 pg. 30