My People is the Enemy: An Autobiographical PolemicWipf and Stock Publishers, 01.08.2005 - 166 Seiten "It was to Harlem that I came from the Harvard Law School. I came to Harlem to live, to work there as a lawyer, to take some part in the politics of the neighborhood, to be a layman in the Church there. It is now seven years later. In what I now relate about Harlem, I do not wish to indulge in horror stories, though that would be easy enough to do." In this extraordinary and passionate book, William Stringfellow relates his deep concern with the ugly reality of being black and being poor. As a white Anglo-Saxon, Mr. Stringfellow does not try to speak for African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the Harlem ghetto, but, as a lawyer, he graphically underlines the failure of the American legal system to provide equal justice for the poor. And, as a Christian who lived for seven years on what the New York Times called the worst block in New York City, he challenges the reluctance of the churches "to be involved in the racial crisis beyond the point of pontification." |
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The Piety of Poverty | 28 |
Remember the Outcast | 37 |
The Law as an Enemy | 54 |
The Politics of Poverty | 67 |
The Politics of Racism | 78 |
Poverty Charity and Mission | 85 |
The Lost Frontier | 105 |
The Passion for Revenge | 112 |
The Depths of Estrangement | 121 |
The Cynicism of the Churches | 133 |
The Way to Live | 142 |
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