The Reckoning

Name: The Reckoning
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Randall Robinson
ISBN: 9781449801953

Author: Randall Robinson

Narrator: Cornell Womack

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/02/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Discrimination, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies

Synopsis

A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community. In this powerful book, he convincingly argues that African Americans must fight the growing presence of modern prisons, which hold an alarmingly disproportionate number of black inmates.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Payton on August 16, 2012

Clearly written for (and probably consumed by) a niche audience, yet this book spoke to me at a time during my adolescence. The ides espoused by Robinson range from the practical to the fantastical, but this text provides an interesting counterpoint to the lens through which most mainstream media po......more

Goodreads review by Tom on June 30, 2011

I read this book after I read Robinson's "The Debt" (which I thought was great). The Reckoning was written before The Debt, and you can see that many of the arguments that he formulates well in the latter book are not fully developed in the former. As a result, his arguments are not as powerful or c......more