David Billings

Powered by Verbosa & WordPress. Deep Denial wins the 2017 Indie Book Award for Current Events/Social Change, and was also awarded Finalist standing in both Historical Non-Fiction and Multicultural Non-Fiction categories. No one speaks to racism and its cure better than David Billings, a white Southerner who has seen it all. His is a voice that need... s to be heard. It is a voice with perfect pitch. Deep Denial, part popular history and part personal memoir, documents the 400-year racialization of the United States and how people of European descent came to be called white. Author David Billings focuses primarily on the deeply embedded notion of white supremacy and tells us why, despite the Civil Rights Movement and an African-American president, we remain, in the words of the author, a nation hard-wired by race. A master storyteller, Billings starts each chapter with a disarming and intimate vignette from his personal life, beginning with his white, working-class boyhood in Mississippi and Arkansas. He then situates these telling moments in a broader historical context that will be new and disturbing to many readers. Part I covers the origins and evolution of white supremacy from 17th century Virginia through World War II. Part II focuses on the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged in the post-WWII era, and why it subsequently devolved from a vibrant community-led, issue-based movement into the bureaucratic, government-sponsored, needs-based, nonprofit industry of today. An epilogue discusses strategies for dismantling white supremacy and undoing racism in America. STUDY GUIDE to Deep Denial FREE AND ON-LINE: www.cddbooks.com/public/DeepDenialStudyguide.pdf Available from Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc. / 908-241-5439. Also available on Amazon (PB or Kindle) as well as online through most major bookstore via Ingram Distributors.Read More