Working on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Library of Contemporary Thought (Los Angeles, Calif.).)

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Summary: Walter Mosley's Appeal
Review: Fiction writer Walter Mosely takes yet another daring turn with Working On The Chain Gang. This slim volume is his excursion into non-fiction and political commentary.

Mosley uses concise, plainly spoken language to urge for the study of Black American History as a map of the coming times for all Americans in the global economy.

Wage Slavery, the villification of the youth, and the commodification of humanity are just some of the issues that were once almost exclusively restricted to Black Americans but are slowly becoming concerns of us all.

Mosley's eye is daring and his words speak from an unflinching, sometimes necessarily abrasive, truth that harkens back to the words of early American printer/abolishionist David Walker's Appeal.

Though there are moments of extreme pessimism and unformed solutions to the problems he illustrates, Mosley's Chain Gang is a more than apt blueprint for the new revolution.

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Summary: Good book, Dove can't spell though
Review: The book should be "Workin' on the Chain Gang"...if you read the book you'll see why it should be Workin and not Working. (Or listen to it.)

Rating:
Summary: Good book, Dove can't spell though
Review: The book should be "Workin' on the Chain Gang"...if you read the book you'll see why it should be Workin and not Working. (Or listen to it.)