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The first in-depth look at white people¹s activism in fighting racism during
the past fifty years.
A PROMISE AND A WAY OF LIFE: White Antiracist Activism
Becky Thompson
University of Minnesota Press | 512 pages | 2001
0-8166-3633-8 | hardcover/jacket | $34.95
0-8166-3634-6 | paperback | $19.95
³Here is a fascinating collective portrait of an extraordinary group of
white people who fought racism, often at great risk. Becky Thompson traces
the background, the thinking, the actions of these people over a period of
fifty years, as they participated in the most important social movements of
our time. Her book is a valuable addition to the history of social movements
in the 20th century.² Howard Zinn
A Promise and a Way of Life weaves an account of the past half-century based
on the life histories of thirty-nine people who have placed antiracist
activism at the center of their lives. Through a fascinating narrative that
links individual experiences with social and political history, Thompson
shows the ways, both public and personal, in which whites have opposed
racism during several social movements: the Civil Rights and Black Power
movements, multiracial feminism, the Central American peace movement, the
struggle for antiracist education, and activism against the prison industry
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