Product Description

Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which they are neither playing or winning. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of race. Dr. Anderson uses the anaylsis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #428995 in Books
• Published on: 1994-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780966170214
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"similar to W.E.B. Dubois and the best of the 20th century." -- Detroit Free Press

"the second Bible for black Americans." -- Jet Magazine

About the Author
Dr. Claud Anderson is a successful author who has popularized Black history and is widely recognized as one of America's most influential intellectuals. He has drawn the nation's attention to the issue of race and the advantages of redeveloping and industrializing black communities. Dr. Anderson has a broad and varied base of experiences spanning education, business, national and state politics and successful economic and social reform. Dr. Anderson is currently president of the Harvest Institute, a black think tank. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the Coastal Plains Regional Commission, Dr. Anderson funded and directed economic development activities for governors in the Southeastern states. He was executive director for two economic development corporations in Miami, Florida. As special assistant to the 1988 Democratic Convention, he awarded 37% of the contracts to blacks, a record that has not been reached or broken. During integration, he served as State Coordinator of Education of the state of Florida under Governor Reubin Askew.

Dr. Anderson has developed the concept of PowerNomics, a set of social-political and economic strategies based upon his analysis of the race problem as described in Black Labor. PowerNomics is designed as a solution to the nation's race problems and to help make Black America more self-sufficient and competitive as a group. He is also involved in several projects to redevelop inner cities according to PowerNomics strategies.

Customer Reviews

This book is a MUST READ for ALL conscientious black people.
If you are tired of the modern day "Sambos" like Armstrong Williams, Larry Elders, Clarence Thomas, J.C. (Just Cooning) Watts and the many other LOST SOULS, then this book is a definite necessity. If you are fustrated with the past, current, and possibly future predicament that our strong race of people are in, then this book is a definite must read. If you are looking for a direction to actively counter-attack white economic, political, and of course racist implementations to further destroy our people, then this book will give you the necessary tools to fight this oppressive war. This book is the modern day equivalent of giving a slave a compass, map, horse, and food to get to "quasi freedom". I give the book a rating of 20, it tells the ABSOLUTE TRUTH and just does not pay lip service to our plight, but offers an aggressive plan of action that WILL WORK if only we would heed the lessons of the past. The new struggle is not marching, singing, and/or picketing, the new struggle is ECONOMIC my beloved people. WAKE UP AND FIGHT YOU MIGHTY RACE OF BEAUTIFUL BLACK PEOPLE! Love, peace, and eternal blackness.

A deeply flawed must-read
Anderson's book is often compelling, and I recommend this book despite its many flaws.

Its main strength is an unflinching review of the sources and consequences of white economic power. Anderson clearly set out to provoke readers, and his deployment of facts and rhetoric is impressive. Whether discussing the checkered history of the Bill of Rights or the unique origins of American slavery, his discussion is designed to expose the "secret history" of race relations.

That said, the book has many problems. His history is often shallow, as when he claims Native Americans have less to complain about than African Americans because they received schooling, blankets, food, etc. in exchange for their land. If memory serves, some of those blankets were contaminated with smallpox, and government-run schools were machines for destroying NA history, culture, and families. Generally, when he mentions others' sufferings, it is to belittle them so that those of African Americans look that much worse. What he forgets is that if one is starving or being beaten right now on account of race or ethnicity, the relative freedoms of one's ancestors matters little.

His use of sources is also suspect. When he agrees with Thomas Sowell, for example, he just cites his name, but when he disagrees, he adds epithets about Sowell's political affiliations. In many places, he cites secondary souces, such as a book titled Sociology (a college text?), rather than tracing the facts and accounts to their primary sources.

Overall, his conclusions are usually more compelling than the arguments that support them, which is to say that the book can inspire further research but not real confidence. By far, the most striking and important part of the book is its concluding section, an extensive program of remedies; many books are long on opinions but short on pragmatic solutions that combine day-to-day living with a long-term vision.

Should people read this book? Yes. Like any book of its kind, it deserves a sound, critical response, and it should not be taken as a voice from the sky.

A MUST READ FOR BLACK AMERICANS
This book proves the absolute travesty of history education given to students in the U.S. As a young black man taught in public schools, one almost gasps in astonishment at how sinister US textbook authors are by completely marginalizing and minimalizing slavery and its place in american history.

The US economy was founded off of the mass exploitation of blacks, producing most if not all of the goods and services this country (and European countries) consumed and traded with other nations. When one quantifies the whole of what blacks experienced through 450 years of holocaust, one wonders how on earth we managed to survive in the first place.

An example of one of the facts mentioned by the author is that immigrants (either living in or arriving) to the U.S. are able to reap first class citizenship status and enjoy the fruits and benefits of this country while not having to lift a finger..even with millions of them having fought as COMBATANTS in major WARS AGAINST THE U.S; yet blacks, who have been here since its very beginning, are still seen as 2nd and 3rd class citizens, shut out of the ownership class in this country, and marginalized in every single facet of american society, and have yet receive their just recompense for centuries of abuse, exploitation, and genocide.

Guess its just the "american way"...