Book Description
The book offers a potent analysis of the factors that may be compromising the very survival of African Americans and an incisive warning on the state of the nation.

Structured in chapters that can be read as a series of distinct essays
or as a cumulative expose of the conditions in which African Americans have
lived during "two centuries of slavery and 141 years of racism," Bakker's
book is both a historical record and a collection of arguments supporting
the thesis that violations of dignity and human rights in African American
communities are unparalleled in history and that it may be too late to
reverse the trend toward the annihilation of these communities.   

"The U.S. Bureau of Census reported in 2005 that the African American
population had slightly increased, yet a number of independent surveys
report that the African American population is in decline," states Bakker.
"The HIV/AIDS epidemic, infant mortality, health issues, domestic violence,
and the permanent loss of black males to the prison system and lack of
economic opportunity have taken their toll. My book chronicles all of these
factors."


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