This study explores how and why the concept of secularism has proved to be inadequate for dealing with the complex problems of Indian society.
#583071 in Books 2009-09-24Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 5.50 x .50 x 8.20l; .63 #File Name: 0195393082219 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy Matt commonsStarts off slow but it turns into a book you can't put down.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. RevealingBy JoshLeeAnna Keith unmasks one of the greatest racial tragedies in the Post-Civil War South. The book is well written and interesting.20 of 27 people found the following review helpful. An excellent book; and all too timelyBy Maxwell GrantLeeAnna Keith's book explores what was surely one of the most tragic moments in the history of Reconstruction -- a moment when the hopes of African-Americans and the anger and fear of Southern whites clashed with particular violence. This alone would make it an important story.However; the book also represents a recovery effort of sorts; because subsequent historians of the period have not given the massacre the treatment it merits. And so; an event that the white community claimed initially with pride for their own defiance has all but ceased to be part of the larger history of Reconstruction...and the massacre has almost seemed to pass in silence.The recent events in Jena; Louisiana prove that the tensions and ironies surrounding race; class and identity in the American South remain; and that they draw on an old; old symbolic and dramatic vocabulary -- a vocabulary that our history compels us to see clearly.Keith's work will help us immeasureably to see history and current events with a deeper; if painful new honesty.
