Author/Columnist
Anthony Asadullah Samad's Latest Book, 50 Years After
Brown: The State of Black Equality In America Nominated
For NAACP Image Award
Much Touted Book's Reference
to "Colorblindness As The New Jim Crow" Puts Race Back In
The National Discourse.
Author - Anthony Asadullah Samad
Bookcover
Los
Angeles, CA
(BlackNews.com) - Kabili Press announced that the latest book
release of award winning columnist, and best-selling author,
Anthony Asadullah Samad, 50 Years After Brown: The State
of Black Equality In America, has been nominated for a
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Non Fiction.
A timely discussion in how far African Americans have advanced
since the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, KS, et al. in 1954, the book analyzes the history
of the equality battles before the Brown decision and critiques
the fifty year battle to define and engage political, social
and economic equality for all Americans.
The
book surmises that equality has not yet been attained
in America largely because America has avoided the national
discussion in post civil right era (1980 to the present).
Colorblindness is the new Jim Crow as American equality
remains as separate and unequal as ever, concludes author
Anthony Asadullah Samad.
The 2005 NAACP Image Award nomination represents the
latest accolade for this landmark book that many scholars
and historians are calling a very important contribution
in the study of race and social construction in America,
as well as a springboard into a national discussion
on reparations. 50 Years After Brown: The State of
Black Equality In America was the winner of 2005
Los Angeles Black Book Expos Best Non-Fiction Book Award,
made several best-seller lists including Essence Magazine
(September, 2005) and was selected as one of the top
ten black non-fiction titles in 2005 by the African
American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com, Kam Williams,
reviewer).
Viewed as one of the most read featured columnists in
the African American press over the past 15 years, Anthony
Asadullah Samads various weekly editorial commentaries
contributes to newspapers and cyber websites that appear
in U.S. markets nationwide. An Associate Professor of
Political Science and African American Studies at East
Los Angeles College, Mr. Samad is also currently the
managing director of the Urban Issues Forum of Greater
Los Angeles, and is the author of two books; his first
book also an Essence magazine bestseller, Souls For
Sale: The Diary of An Ex-Colored Man (Kabili Press,
2002). To find more about his current release, 50
Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America,
visit www.AnthonySamad.com
To vote for this outstanding work, see your ballot in
the NAACP Crisis Magazine or vote on-line at www.naacpimageawards.net
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