Radio Curious revisits a conversation about racism with Dr. Francis Adams, co-author of âAlienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Manâs Land, 1619 to 2000.â
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
âAlienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Manâs Land, 1619 to 2000â is a book in part written by Francis Adams, an independent scholar living in Los Angeles, California. The book posits that the drive for equal rights for black people in the United States has never had the support of the majority of America. Rather, racial progress has been made in brief historic bursts, lead by the committed militant minorities of abolitionists, radical republicans, and civil rights activists.
Dr. Francis Adams and I began our conversation when I asked him to explain the importance of the trial of James Somerset that took place in England in 1772.
The book that Dr. Francis Adams recommends is: âCollapse,â by Jared Diamond.
Originally Broadcast: January 29, 2005.
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