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Review Of Andrew Hartman's A War For The Soul Of America

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Author, Andrew Hartman, in the book, A War for the Soul of America, addresses the topic of civil rights and provides the history of the culture wars. In chapters 2 and 4, he discusses the impact segregation and discrimination. He explained the influences that has been made by African Americans and white people in the 20th century. A big part of these chapters were the perceptions of people who were liberal or conservative. He also spoke about views and the position of Neoconservatives during the late 20th century. It was mentioned in the book that “...achieving equal results would prove more difficult because blacks lacked the cultural conditioning necessary to compete with whites…” (Hartman 43). This is a result of African Americans being …show more content…

In the book it compared the Bronx, New York to Palo Alto, California. The Bronx had more African American residence, while Palo Alto’s demographics were mainly white people. It was suggesting that a place like the Bronx had a higher crime rate than Palo Alto, because of black people were living there. Today, the United States still struggle with issues regarding African Americans and police brutality. The racial inequality is better now than it was before, however, there are some people that still hold a bias against black people. Although it is not because a black person had done something to harm them, but because it is a bias passed down by parents, grandparents, etc. One thing that I wish was brought up more was how Podhoretz, “...wrote an essay for Commentary, ‘My Negro Problem-and Ours’, that generated buzz among the literati for its honest admission that most whites, even liberals, were ‘twisted and sick in their feelings about Negroes’” (48). It was a norm to dislike African Americans, but there were people who had no clue as to why they should hate black people. African Americans did not do anything wrong so what was the

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