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eBook details
- Title: Standing Tall
- Author : Jake Sloan
- Release Date : January 17, 2017
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3304 KB
Description
In writing Standing Tall: Willie Long and The Mare Island Original 21ers, author Jake Sloan assumed literary leadership in telling a story of the quest for economic and social justice for African American workers who were employed by the federal government at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the 1960s. His work interrogates the concepts of equality and democracy that are embodied in the ethos of the United States and expands the scope of civil rights scholarship. The book stands as a testament to sacrifice, the value and imperative of organization, solidarity and risk associated with speaking up and speaking out. Indeed, the book demonstrates that those who blaze new trails must be willing to face the headwinds. More so than the monument on Mare Island that pays tribute to the original 21ers, the book acknowledges the courage and resolve that is indicative of the struggle for justice for African American people that dates back to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The work is essential for the realization that there are those who attempt to tell the story of African American people but what they produce is biased, grossly distorted, triumphalism/revisionist and tantamount to fomented misconceptions. In general, the story of working people who fought for their humanity and self-respect is largely untold. The mental labor that Jake Sloan engaged in is a tribute to the original 21ers who were central figures in local Black Power labor politics.
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