Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Name: Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Author: Mychal Denzel Smith
ISBN: 9781568588728

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Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Mychal Denzel Smith

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In Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.

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