My book, Overcoming the Lie of “Race”: A Personal, Philosophical, and Political Perspective, is
now available in its Second Edition. It contains a new Epilogue that addresses
the current political situation and the alarming rise of bigotry. It also contains some additions and
clarifications. You may order it from your local bookstore (from Ingram
distributor) or from Amazon.com
or BarnesandNoble.com.
Overcoming the Lie of
“Race” relies on history, genetic studies, and the author's personal
experiences to expose the politically inspired false concepts, lies and deceit
that underlie the idea of "race." It proposes how we should move
forward in acknowledging that racism is real, “race” is not.
Here are a few selections from the book:
Prefatory quotations--
“The legacy of the past racism directed at blacks in the United States is more like a bacillus that we have failed to
destroy, a live germ that not only continues to make some of us ill but retains
the capacity to generate new strains of a disease for which we have no certain
cure.”
—George
M. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History (2002), p. 143.
“Racism is, and always has been, the way America has sorted and ranked its people in a bitterly
divisive, humanity-robbing system.”
—Debby
Irving, Waking Up White (2014),
p. 31.
“’Race’ itself is a fiction, one that has no basis in
biology or any
long-standing, consistent usage in human culture.”
--Jacqueline
Jones, A Dreadful Deceit (2013), p. x.
Quotation introducing the new Epilogue:
“The first American revolution protected slavery; the
second—the Civil War—destroyed it, but exposed a racism that maintained the
subordination of black people.”
—Alfred
& Ruth Blumrosen, Slave Nation
(2005), p. 257.
From Chapter 11:
“Every solution to the problem of racism in our society must
begin with the explicit realization that human ‘races’ do not exist. If we are
to eliminate racism, we must rid ourselves of the very idea of ‘race.’”
To inform yourself about combating racism, you should read
this book. Remember: Racism is real. “Race” is not.
For more information, go to JohnLHodge.com.
