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ÉDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE de ce recueil de 22 essais politiques ; Lerone Bennett, repensant les concept de "blackness" et "whiteness", y conçoit des stratégies radicales pour permettre aux personnes africaines-américaines l'accès aux pouvoirs politique, économique et culturel.
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I have suggested that blackness challenges us for 5 major reasons :
1. Blackness is a way, perhaps the only way, to the primordial unplumbed center of our being.
2. Blackness is an antidote to the Puritan curse, which is driving this country mad.
3. Blackness holds forth the possibility of creative transcendence of the machine. This should not be taken to mean that blackness is antimachine. It means simply that machines, in the black tradition, are generative power and not soul, instruments and not ends.
4. Blackness is the real repository of the values Euro-Americans proclaimed and never lived.
5. Blackness is another chance, another way; it is the harbinger, as W. E. B. Du Bois said, "of that bright tomorrow which is yet destined to soften the harshness of the Teutonic today."

Journaliste et directeur du magazine Ebony à partir de 1958, Lerone Bennett fut également l'une des figures majeures de la recherche sur l'histoire africaine-américaine.