{"product_id":"the-black-book-ii-from-hajji-malik-al-shabazz-to-barack-obama-9780932863881","title":"The Black Book II: From Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz to Barack Obama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Y. N. Kly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Clarity Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Clarity Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to promote a realistic \u003cbr\u003epolitical dialogue between the \u003cbr\u003eAmerican national minorities and \u003cbr\u003ethe dominant Anglo-American \u003cbr\u003emajority. In what American presidents Clinton and Obama have repeatedly called a \"one-nation one-state\" political system, how will the \u003cbr\u003estate address the unique needs and interests of its historically oppressed national minorities, particularly African Americans? All black officials in the United States government are in the same position as \u003cbr\u003ethe president; they are all required to represent first of all the majority's interests. For a national minority to be able to fully address its special needs (when it can find no specific representation in the majority-dominated platform of either political party or the policy agenda of government), it must seek to enjoy not only civil rights, but the full range of human rights, particularly the right to self-determination, to whatever extent may be desired or needed. \u003cbr\u003eHajji Malik Al-Shabazz understood that the African Americans were still in the grip of American domestic colonialism. He feared that the majority \u003cbr\u003eethny would prefer to pursue forced assimilation, possibly leading \u003cbr\u003eto the extinguishing of African Americans' collective identity (ethnocide), rather than to negotiate an equal-status integration of the African American national minority. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the presidency of Barack Obama is demonstrating, electing a Black president who is required to address the state's interest as a whole is not the answer for improving the well being of African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891403407511,"sku":"9780932863881","price":1065.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780932863881.webp?v=1781183578","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-black-book-ii-from-hajji-malik-al-shabazz-to-barack-obama-9780932863881","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}