The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

This text gathers a number of brilliant, caring, and dedicated writers and scholars to speak of the racial problems that plague the peace, serenity and stability of our social lives and places. No stone is left untouched from political to racial, gender, sexual, religious, cultural, incarceration-al, unemployment, and the capitalization of play! These far ranging essays contribute to an awakening of consciousness or a support of one's consciousness through picking up the noticeable, and more importantly, the hidden, language, motivations and actions that come from them. Each one helps us to see better ourselves and, more importantly, ourselves in relation to others as persons no longer labeled items in a Walmart bargain price bin. Most importantly, this book allows us to recognize "The House that Race Built' and envision another place of living. It is one where a human being can, in Toni Morrison's words: "imagine safety without walls, can iterate difference that is prized but not privileged, and can conceive of a third, if you can pardon the expression, world 'already made for me, both snug and wide open, with a doorway never needing to be closed.' ... Home."

This book is a collection of essays on the topic of race by noted scholars.